1 //===- llvm/Support/ErrorHandling.h - Fatal error handling ------*- C++ -*-===//
3 // The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
5 // This file is distributed under the University of Illinois Open Source
6 // License. See LICENSE.TXT for details.
8 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
10 // This file defines an API used to indicate fatal error conditions. Non-fatal
11 // errors (most of them) should be handled through LLVMContext.
13 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
15 #ifndef LLVM_SUPPORT_ERRORHANDLING_H
16 #define LLVM_SUPPORT_ERRORHANDLING_H
18 #include "llvm/Support/Compiler.h"
19 #include "llvm/ADT/StringRef.h"
25 /// An error handler callback.
26 typedef void (*fatal_error_handler_t)(void *user_data,
27 const std::string& reason);
29 /// install_fatal_error_handler - Installs a new error handler to be used
30 /// whenever a serious (non-recoverable) error is encountered by LLVM.
32 /// If you are using llvm_start_multithreaded, you should register the handler
33 /// before doing that.
35 /// If no error handler is installed the default is to print the error message
36 /// to stderr, and call exit(1). If an error handler is installed then it is
37 /// the handler's responsibility to log the message, it will no longer be
38 /// printed to stderr. If the error handler returns, then exit(1) will be
41 /// It is dangerous to naively use an error handler which throws an exception.
42 /// Even though some applications desire to gracefully recover from arbitrary
43 /// faults, blindly throwing exceptions through unfamiliar code isn't a way to
46 /// \param user_data - An argument which will be passed to the install error
48 void install_fatal_error_handler(fatal_error_handler_t handler,
51 /// Restores default error handling behaviour.
52 /// This must not be called between llvm_start_multithreaded() and
53 /// llvm_stop_multithreaded().
54 void remove_fatal_error_handler();
56 /// ScopedFatalErrorHandler - This is a simple helper class which just
57 /// calls install_fatal_error_handler in its constructor and
58 /// remove_fatal_error_handler in its destructor.
59 struct ScopedFatalErrorHandler {
60 explicit ScopedFatalErrorHandler(fatal_error_handler_t handler,
61 void *user_data = 0) {
62 install_fatal_error_handler(handler, user_data);
65 ~ScopedFatalErrorHandler() { remove_fatal_error_handler(); }
68 /// Reports a serious error, calling any installed error handler. These
69 /// functions are intended to be used for error conditions which are outside
70 /// the control of the compiler (I/O errors, invalid user input, etc.)
72 /// If no error handler is installed the default is to print the message to
73 /// standard error, followed by a newline.
74 /// After the error handler is called this function will call exit(1), it
76 LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_NORETURN void report_fatal_error(const char *reason);
77 LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_NORETURN void report_fatal_error(const std::string &reason);
78 LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_NORETURN void report_fatal_error(StringRef reason);
79 LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_NORETURN void report_fatal_error(const Twine &reason);
81 /// This function calls abort(), and prints the optional message to stderr.
82 /// Use the llvm_unreachable macro (that adds location info), instead of
83 /// calling this function directly.
84 LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_NORETURN void llvm_unreachable_internal(const char *msg=0,
89 /// Marks that the current location is not supposed to be reachable.
90 /// In !NDEBUG builds, prints the message and location info to stderr.
91 /// In NDEBUG builds, becomes an optimizer hint that the current location
92 /// is not supposed to be reachable. On compilers that don't support
93 /// such hints, prints a reduced message instead.
95 /// Use this instead of assert(0). It conveys intent more clearly and
96 /// allows compilers to omit some unnecessary code.
98 #define llvm_unreachable(msg) \
99 ::llvm::llvm_unreachable_internal(msg, __FILE__, __LINE__)
100 #elif defined(LLVM_BUILTIN_UNREACHABLE)
101 #define llvm_unreachable(msg) LLVM_BUILTIN_UNREACHABLE
103 #define llvm_unreachable(msg) ::llvm::llvm_unreachable_internal()