Unifying Exception types in setup

[Robert Collins]

On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 21:24, Pavel Tsekov wrote:

> Just chaging exit() -> throw Exception won't help much. There should be
> an exception handler installed who takes care of processing these 
> exceptions i.e. shutdown setup with a simple message describing the
> situation.
> 
> If you going to do this I suggest you to dereive a new class from 
> exception or Exception, say FatalException. Then install a global handler,
> which catches FatalException and displays a message then exits. This way 
> the exit call will be in a single place and not scattered throught the 
> code.

Yep, thats reasonable. terminate handlers can't return though, so we
need a synchronous, non memory allocating, non resource using message
display.

Rob
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