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Tcl Library Procedures                            Tcl_Panic(3TCL)



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NAME
     Tcl_Panic, Tcl_PanicVA, Tcl_SetPanicProc, panic,  panicVA  -
     report fatal error and abort

SYNOPSIS
     #include 

     void
     Tcl_Panic(format, arg, arg, ...)

     void
     Tcl_PanicVA(format, argList)

     void
     Tcl_SetPanicProc(panicProc)

     void
     panic(format, arg, arg, ...)

     void
     panicVA(format, argList)


ARGUMENTS
     CONST char*     format       (in)      A printf-style format
                                            string.

                     arg          (in)      Arguments    matching
                                            the format string.

     va_list         argList      (in)      An argument  list  of
                                            arguments    matching
                                            the  format   string.
                                            Must  have  been ini-
                                            tialized        using
                                            TCL_VARARGS_START,
                                            and   cleared   using
                                            va_end.

     Tcl_PanicProc   *panicProc   (in)      Procedure  to  report
                                            fatal  error  message
                                            and abort.

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DESCRIPTION
     When the Tcl library detects that its internal  data  struc-
     tures are in an inconsistent state, or that its C procedures
     have  been  called  in  a  manner  inconsistent  with  their



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Tcl Library Procedures                            Tcl_Panic(3TCL)



     documentation,  it  calls  Tcl_Panic  to  display  a message
     describing the error and  abort  the  process.   The  format
     argument  is  a  format  string describing how to format the
     remaining arguments arg into an error message, according  to
     the same formatting rules used by the printf family of func-
     tions.  The same formatting rules are also used by the buil-
     tin Tcl command format.

     In a freshly loaded Tcl library, Tcl_Panic prints  the  for-
     matted  error message to the standard error file of the pro-
     cess,  and  then  calls  abort  to  terminate  the  process.
     Tcl_Panic does not return.

     Tcl_SetPanicProc may be  used  to  modify  the  behavior  of
     Tcl_Panic.   The  panicProc  argument  should match the type
     Tcl_PanicProc:

          typedef void Tcl_PanicProc(
            CONST char *format,
            arg, arg,...);

     After  Tcl_SetPanicProc  returns,  any   future   calls   to
     Tcl_Panic  will call panicProc, passing along the format and
     arg arguments.  To maintain consistency with the callers  of
     Tcl_Panic,  panicProc  must  not return; it must call abort.
     panicProc should avoid making calls into the Tcl library, or
     into  other  libraries  that may call the Tcl library, since
     the original call to Tcl_Panic indicates the Tcl library  is
     not in a state of reliable operation.

     The typical use of Tcl_SetPanicProc arranges for  the  error
     message  to  be displayed or reported in a manner more suit-
     able for the application or the platform.   As  an  example,
     the Windows implementation of wish calls Tcl_SetPanicProc to
     force all panic messages to be displayed in a system  dialog
     box,  rather  than  to be printed to the standard error file
     (usually not visible under Windows).

     Although the primary callers of Tcl_Panic are the procedures
     of  the  Tcl library, Tcl_Panic is a public function and may
     be called by any extension or  application  that  wishes  to
     abort  the  process  and  have a panic message displayed the
     same way that panic messages from Tcl will be displayed.

     Tcl_PanicVA is the same as Tcl_Panic except that instead  of
     taking  a  variable number of arguments it takes an argument
     list.  The procedures panic and panicVA are synonyms (imple-
     mented  as  macros)  for  Tcl_Panic and Tcl_PanicVA, respec-
     tively.  They exist to support old code; new code should use
     direct calls to Tcl_Panic or Tcl_PanicVA.





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Tcl Library Procedures                            Tcl_Panic(3TCL)



SEE ALSO
     abort(3TCL), printf(3TCL), exec(1T), format(1T)


KEYWORDS
     abort, fatal, error


ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:

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    |   ATTRIBUTE TYPE   |  ATTRIBUTE VALUE|
    |____________________|__________________|_
    | Availability       |  runtime/tcl-8  |
    |____________________|__________________|_
    | Interface Stability|  Uncommitted    |
    |____________________|_________________|

NOTES
     Source for Tcl is available on http://opensolaris.org.

































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