Re: try/catch in scsynth

Hi Nathan,

Novice here too, but I did hear the same about exceptions and real-time 
safety.

It looks though that the try/catch was written by James McCartney which 
I imagine knows what he was doing... ?

https://github.com/supercollider/supercollider/blob/66f84c8d57e3947df95e2b2eb72f248ef1cfb338/source/server/SC_CoreAudio.cpp#L927

grepping the plugins directory I don't find any throw statements there 
though...

Best,
Miguel

On 28-03-2018 21:32, nathan-PB1wun9k+p9Wk0Htik3J/[email protected] wrote:
> hi list,
> 
> while investigating 
> https://github.com/supercollider/supercollider/issues/3563, i found that 
> there are try/catch statements in the main audio callbacks for scsynth. 
> two examples:
> 
> https://github.com/supercollider/supercollider/blob/4146f83117433e4e413ab878951f4a981a98aed6/server/scsynth/SC_Jack.cpp#L447 
> 
> 
> https://github.com/supercollider/supercollider/blob/4146f83117433e4e413ab878951f4a981a98aed6/server/scsynth/SC_PortAudio.cpp#L181 
> 
> 
> and there are some throw statements in the SC guts:
> 
> https://github.com/supercollider/supercollider/blob/develop/common/SC_AllocPool.cpp#L391 
> 
> 
> i'm still a novice to real-time safety in programming, but i have heard 
> that C++ exceptions are not safe for real-time audio. should we be 
> concerned about this?
> 
> 
> nathan
> 
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