libgcj/289: exit value after uncatched exception should be non-zero

Tom Tromey tromey@cygnus.com
Wed Jul 19 07:30:00 GMT 2000


The following reply was made to PR libgcj/289; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
To: osk@hem.passagen.se
Cc: java-gnats@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: libgcj/289: exit value after uncatched exception should be non-zero
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 07:26:16 -0700 (PDT)

 Oskar> When a program exits because of an uncatched exception,
 Oskar> the exit value should be non-zero. Programs compiled
 Oskar> with gcj returns with 0 with an exception is thrown,
 Oskar> and the same applies for gij.
 
 Unfortunately this looks hard to fix.  Suppose there are two threads
 and one exits this way and the other exits normally?  I guess we could
 add a special case when there is a single thread.
 
 Tom


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