[Rock-dev] Orocos silently swallows exceptions

[Sylvain Joyeux]

On 02/11/2011 10:32 AM, Jakob Schwendner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this is the second time, I ran into the problem, that I suspected Orocos
> to silently swallow exceptions.
> This time I traced it down to RTT (rtt/ExecutionEngine.cpp).
>
> // A trigger() in startHook() will be ignored, we trigger in TaskCore
> after startHook finishes.
>               if ( taskc->mTaskState == TaskCore::Running&&
> taskc->mTargetState == TaskCore::Running ) {
>                   try {
>                       taskc->prepareUpdateHook();
>                       taskc->updateHook();
>                   } catch(...){
>                       taskc->exception(); // calls stopHook,cleanupHook
>                   }
>               }
>
> fair enough it catches my exception, but shouldn't it let me know about
> it? Is there something I missed?
No, but there was something I missed. I added log lines for hooks in 
TaskCore and did not realize that updateHook() and errorHook() were not 
covered. Will fix.


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