RE: exit

[Jim Mathies <Jim@...>]

We had the same problem with our embedded app.  I reworked the
alert a little and removed the exit call, replacing it with a 
flag i check in a few key places to force the execution thread to 
unwind and exit from my initial dobuffer call.

You also might be able to do it with setjmp and longjmp, although i have

not tried this. I do use setjmp and longjmp in a similar library (GLUT) 
which has the same problem.

Regards,
Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Andre de Leiradella [mailto:andre.leiradella@bra.xerox.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 6:20 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: exit


Hi everyone,

I'm using Lua to extend Moray - a 3D modeller for POV-Ray that runs 
under Windows - but I noticed that, in some situations, Lua calls 
_ALERT (wich has been redefined to pop a MessageBox) and exits.

Well, I can't let Lua exit without giving the user the chance to save 
his/her work. So I would like to know where exactly Lua can call exit
() and how to avoid it.

Of course I'm aware of luaL_opt*, but are there any other places 
where exit() can be called besides argument passing from Lua to C?

For those who want to check this project, visit 
http://members.xoom.com/leiradel/. The source code will be available 
as soon as I have a resonable stable version, without exit()'s!

Regards,

Andre de Leiradella