Re: Re2: Crash when trying to load corrupt file with NSDictionary -initWithContentsOfFile:

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 2005-06-30 12:14:37 +0100 David Ayers <d.ayers@inode.at> wrote:

> Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
>
> > Wierd ... that didn't happen to me.
> > In the code I comitted, it should be impossible to fall through to the
> > ST_CSTRING case, as we have three possible paths through the ST_XREF case:
> >
> > 1. the array is uninitialised and we raise an exception.
> > 2. the array index is invalid and we raise an exception.
> > 3. we return the cross referenced object from the array.
> >
> > I deleted my local copy and checked it out from CVS, and the checked out
> > code looks fine ... so perhaps your version is messed up somehow.  Could
> > you try deleting your local copy and checking out a fresh copy of the file?
>
> FWIW, remember that -raise technically can return!  See the past
> discussion about the uncaught exception handler in -gui.

I missed that ... I think it's a bug.

The -raise method should never return ... that's the MacOS-X behavior (and 
the MacOS-X documentation says that -raise will terminate the program 
irrespective of the behavior of the exception handler).

I guess we need to correct the implementation of -raise