From: simonm <unknown>
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 11:54:08 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: [project @ 1999-02-04 11:54:08 by simonm]
X-Git-Tag: Approximately_9120_patches~6612
X-Git-Url: http://git.megacz.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6037e956e9b37b1ef2221de04f2dfb72074d1729;p=ghc-hetmet.git

[project @ 1999-02-04 11:54:08 by simonm]
Don't go into an infinite loop for errors generated by hPutStr when
outputing an error message.  Use writeErrString__ to output all errors
(this won't generate a Haskell exception).
---

diff --git a/ghc/lib/std/PrelMain.lhs b/ghc/lib/std/PrelMain.lhs
index 4581ea3..05aae47 100644
--- a/ghc/lib/std/PrelMain.lhs
+++ b/ghc/lib/std/PrelMain.lhs
@@ -35,10 +35,7 @@ real_handler :: Exception -> IO ()
 real_handler ex =
   case ex of
 	ErrorCall s -> reportError s
-	other       -> hPutStr stderr (showsPrec 0 other "\n") >>
-		       _ccall_ stg_exit (1::Int)
-
--- calls to 'error' are treated slightly differently...
+	other       -> reportError (showsPrec 0 other "\n")
 
 reportError :: String -> IO ()
 reportError str = do