OK, thanks. I'll do a bit more testing on Snow Leopard. But I have code out in the field with my 'brutal' exception handling in place and nothing like this has ever (yet!) been reported.
Paul Sanders. ----- Original Message ----- From: <jonat...@mugginsoft.com> To: <cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 7:38 PM Subject: Re: Uncaught exceptions not terminating my app On 28 Jan 2010, at 18:55, Jens Alfke wrote: >> > > There are various places in the frameworks where exceptions > get caught and (mostly) ignored. Some of these are where > Carbon code (like the menu or open/save file panel > implementation) calls into Cocoa, since throwing an exception > out through Carbon is bad news. > > (The Carbon examples may not be true anymore in 10.6, but they > are in 10.5 and earlier.) > On 10.6 exceptions generated in Carbon menu event dispatch are logged but ignored. eg:HIToolbox: ignoring exception 'window context is nil' that raised inside Carbon event dispatch _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
