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Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 06:11:00 -0000
From: Don Howard <dhoward@redhat.com>
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Subject: error-catching mechanism for scripts
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I've been trying to find a way to make gdb command scripts handle errors
in a flexible way -- either making continue-on-error an option or some
kind of simple exception catching mechanism:


set script-continue-on-error 1

  -- or --

try
  commands
catch
  commands
end


I'd like to know what others think.

-- 
-Don
dhoward@redhat.com
gdb engineering