What to do when aborts don't abort? :Die PUB die...

[Oldbitcollector (Jeff)]

I'm working on a routine that includes code for condition checking.

I'm calling my PUB from my Main and I can see the report that
a condition has been met with my an "str(string("Condition met"))
but it never comes back with the abort

What would cause an abort to hang instead of coming back to
the original routine that called it's PUB?

I've got something like this in my PUB

if r < 0
term.str(string("failed."))
abort

I see the failed message, but it doesn't wander back for continued execution.

Ideas?

OBC

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Post Edited (Oldbitcollector) : 3/17/2009 11:47:06 PM GMT

[Oldbitcollector (Jeff)]

I've resigned myself to using a RETURN, but I'd still love to hear what the
Spin wizards here say about this.

Thanks!
OBC

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[Ariba]

Have you called the methode which should ABORT, with a \ before the name: \methode(..) ?
If not the ABORT returns to the first routine in the Top Object.

Andy

[Harrison.]

You must catch your aborts by starting your method calls with a \. It will look something like this:



PUB main
\testing

PRI testing
abort -1




The Propeller Manual explains abort in much more detail. Basically it just POPs the call stack until it reaches a call that 'catches' the abort.

[Oldbitcollector (Jeff)]

Ah ha! That makes sense!

Thank you!

(Now why didn't I catch that from the three pages in the manual!??)

OBC

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[Timothy D. Swieter]

Learning something new here - I didn't realize there was a \ either, but then again I hadn't used the abort yet.

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[Jeff Martin]

Yeah, without the \ your abort was popping everything out of the stack, and should have caused the cog to terminate... since the stack is initially populated with a return address that causes the Spin interpreter to execute a COGSTOP(COGID).

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[ericball]

Just a clarification - is the abort value returned to the abort trap? i.e.




PRI child
if <bad thing>
abort -1

PRI parent
rc := child

PUB main | rc
rc := \parent
IF rc == -1
<handle bad thing>


Thanks Mike.· := fixed

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Post Edited (ericball) : 6/15/2009 12:34:43 AM GMT

[Mike Green]

Yes. Do remember that assignments use the ":=" operator.