[lazarus] Bugs in lazarus

[Mattias Gaertner]

On 2001.03.30 07:55:39 +0200 FoodTechnologist wrote:
> > If there were try..excepts you would not found the bug and reported it
> > and I would not fixed it. But without them, I fixed it. Therefore I
will
> > not add try..excepts to code without a raise.
> 
> Course, brackets should be like
> {$ifndef DEBUG}
> try
> {$endif}
> ..........
> {$ifndef DEBUG}
> except end;
> {$endif}
> 
> or even
> {$ifdef NOCRUSH}
> try
> {$endif}
> ..........
> {$ifdef NOCRUSH}
> except end;
> {$endif}


If we put try..excepts ends; in this part of code, a user won't notice that
there is a bug. Unhandled bugs can produce inconsistency and in the case of
the code tools loss of code. Hence the alternative would look like:

try
except
  MessageDlg('There is a bug in the code tools.'
       +' Please kill lazarus to avoid further inconsistency.'
       +' Your code can already be damaged.',
        ...);
end;

This looks somewhat nicer than a crash. But there will be no lineinfo
output and your bugreport will not be very helpful, which reduces the
chance to find the bug.
Are you sure, you want this?


Mattias