[gmpi] Re: Reqs final draft

  • From: "Didier Dambrin" <didid@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:28:33 +0100

personally:

-divs by zero are not THAT rare, while they're bugs they usually don't prevent the plugin from running

-you want to track divs by zero when you debug your plugin, but for the final version?

-IMO the biggest reason NOT to want divs by zero triggering exceptions is that they CAN happen. If a host doesn't handle the div by zero exception, it's gonna crash or freeze it (most likely if it happens from within the mixing thread)




>I can see lots of reasons to have all exceptions disabled (it's made for
realtime apps - you don't want exceptions here more than you'd do in apps
that use openGL), but what's your reason to want exceptions unmasked?

if a plugin does a divide-by-zero, its an error on the part of the developer AFAICT. as a host author, i would want to catch such actions, and remove the plugin from my "graph". you can, i believe, mask certain exceptions and allow others.

--p

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