I get no new test failures on master after AST merged.

Before and after the AST merge, I still get ~200 tests failing on Windows.

My test runs turned up a few crashes, which I am reproducing to get BTs to
share. I'm not sure if the crashes are AST related.




On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 2:50 AM, Ferenc Kovacs <tyr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 1:58 AM, Andrea Faulds <a...@ajf.me> wrote:
>
> >
> > On 26 Aug 2014, at 00:53, Benjamin Eberlei <kont...@beberlei.de> wrote:
> >
> > > Depends, registering for shutdown handlers and catching fatals is a
> > pretty
> > > common thing. If EngineException does not get caught, it should produce
> > an
> > > E_FATAL again with the correct error code.
> >
> > Exceptions already do this, do they not? I don’t see why those exceptions
> > would be any different.
> >
>
> people have code out there like this:
> try {
>   //something stupid
> } catch (Exception $e) {
>   //do nothing or maybe log it
> }
>
> if we turn fatal errors into Exceptions extending the base Exception class,
> these Pokémon constructs ("Gotta Catch 'Em All") will will swallow those
> errors and contrinue the execution, maybe causing more dangerous
> results(data corruption, etc.) than a simple fatal error could.
> But these issues was discussed before, so I'm fairly sure that Nikita is
> aware of those concerns, and let's just wait for him to update his proposal
> and we can discuss it after it's ready.
>
> --
> Ferenc Kovács
> @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu
>

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