Concrete error handling mechanisms should be configurable

Tero Hasu
Bergen Language Design Laboratory
Department of Informatics, University of Bergen
Bergen, Norway

Abstract

We argue that programmers should not need to decide on a specific error handling mechanism when implementing a C or C++ library. Rather, it should be possible to make that decision at configuration time in order to achieve better portability and more convenient use of libraries.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{hasu-12-errors,
author = "Tero Hasu",
title = "Concrete Error Handling Mechanisms Should Be Configurable",
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Exception
             Handling (WEH 2012)},
address = {Zurich, Switzerland},
month = jun,
year = 2012}
    

Publication Details

DOI:

10.1109/WEH.2012.6226598

Preprint:

paper (as PDF)

Presentation:

slides (as PDF)

Workshop:

WEH 2012

Conference:

ICSE 2012