• DocumentCode
    2435816
  • Title

    Concrete error handling mechanisms should be configurable

  • Author

    Hasu, Tero

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Inf., Univ. of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    9-9 June 2012
  • Firstpage
    46
  • Lastpage
    48
  • Abstract
    We argue that programmers should not need to decide on a specific error handling mechanism when implementing a C or C++ library. Rather, it should be possible to make that decision at configuration time in order to achieve better portability and more convenient use of libraries.
  • Keywords
    C++ language; program debugging; C library; C++ library; concrete error handling mechanisms; configuration time; decision time; specific error handling mechanism; Abstracts; Concrete; Libraries; Programming; Software engineering; Standards; Switches; C; C++; error handling; exceptions; portability; programming languages; software engineering; source-to-source; translation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Exception Handling (WEH), 2012 5th International Workshop on
  • Conference_Location
    Zurich
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1767-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/WEH.2012.6226598
  • Filename
    6226598