Python/errors.c

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/* Error handling -- see also run.c */

/* New error handling interface.

   The following problem exists (existed): methods of built-in modules
   are called with 'self' and 'args' arguments, but without a context
   argument, so they have no way to raise a specific exception.
   The same is true for the object implementations: no context argument.
   The old convention was to set 'errno' and to return NULL.
   The caller (usually call_function() in eval.c) detects the NULL
   return value and then calls puterrno(ctx) to turn the errno value
   into a true exception.  Problems with this approach are:
   - it used standard errno values to indicate Python-specific errors,
     but this means that when such an error code is reported by a system
     call (e.g., in module posix), the user gets a confusing message
   - errno is a global variable, which makes extensions to a multi-
     threading environment difficult; e.g., in IRIX, multi-threaded
     programs must use the function oserror() instead of looking in errno
   - there is no portable way to add new error numbers for specic
     situations -- the value space for errno is reserved to the OS, yet
     the way to turn module-specific errors into a module-specific
     exception requires module-specific values for errno
   - there is no way to add a more situation-specific message to an
     error.
  
  The new interface solves all these problems.  To return an error, a
  built-in function calls err_set(exception), err_setval(exception,
  value) or err_setstr(exception, string), and returns NULL.  These
  functions save the value for later use by puterrno().  To adapt this
  scheme to a multi-threaded environment, only the implementation of
  err_setval() has to be changed.
*/

#include "allobjects.h"
#include "modsupport.h"

#include <errno.h>

extern char *strerror PROTO((int));

/* Last exception stored by err_setval() */

static object *last_exception;
static object *last_exc_val;

void
err_setval(exception, value)
	object *exception;
	object *value;
{
	XDECREF(last_exception);
	XINCREF(exception);
	last_exception = exception;
	
	XDECREF(last_exc_val);
	XINCREF(value);
	last_exc_val = value;
}

void
err_set(exception)
	object *exception;
{
	err_setval(exception, (object *)NULL);
}

void
err_setstr(exception, string)
	object *exception;
	char *string;
{
	object *value = newstringobject(string);
	err_setval(exception, value);
	XDECREF(value);
}


object *
err_occurred()
{
	return last_exception;
}

void
err_get(p_exc, p_val)
	object **p_exc;
	object **p_val;
{
	*p_exc = last_exception;
	last_exception = NULL;
	*p_val = last_exc_val;
	last_exc_val = NULL;
}

void
err_clear()
{
	XDECREF(last_exception);
	last_exception = NULL;
	XDECREF(last_exc_val);
	last_exc_val = NULL;
}

/* Convenience functions to set a type error exception and return 0 */

int
err_badarg()
{
	err_setstr(TypeError, "illegal argument type for built-in operation");
	return 0;
}

object *
err_nomem()
{
	err_set(MemoryError);
	return NULL;
}

object *
err_errno(exc)
	object *exc;
{
	object *v;
	int i = errno;
	if (i == EINTR && sigcheck())
		return NULL;
	v = mkvalue("(is)", i, strerror(i));
	if (v != NULL) {
		err_setval(exc, v);
		DECREF(v);
	}
	return NULL;
}

void
err_badcall()
{
	err_setstr(SystemError, "bad argument to internal function");
}