Re: [Monotone-devel] 3rd party libraries

[Stephen Leake]

Matthew Nicholson <address@hidden> writes:

> Zack Weinberg wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 3:38 AM, Markus Wanner <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>>  * lua: pretty similar to sqlite, except the source inclusion variant is
>>> a bit more complicated. I'm all for dynamic linking and don't see much
>>> of a reason for source inclusion.
>>
>> I think I mentioned this before, but if we're going to stop bundling
>> lua we have to overhaul the error-handling interface between lua and
>> our code, because we're currently relying on lua's ability to be
>> compiled as C++ and use C++ exceptions to report errors.  Of course we
>> need to overhaul it *anyway* because right now lots of errors just
>> silently get lost, but remember that this is on the critical path for
>> unbundling it.
>
> Yeah, I recently noticed the same issue.  To properly unwind the stack
> on error in a c++ app, lua needs to be compiled with a c++ compiler.
> It uses setjmp and longjmp for error handling when compiled as C and
> exceptions when compiled as C++.  If we don't require stack unwinding
> on error (I have not looked at the code), then dynamic linking is
> fine, but I think this is a candidate for bundling.

I'm confused.

You seem to be implying that a dynamically linked object file cannot
be compiled with a C++ compiler. Is that correct?

Or is there some limitation on dynamically linked object files, that
says they can't propagate exceptions? 

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