Re: Throwing exceptions from XS code

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 22:02, Steffen Mueller <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/26/2011 09:11 PM, Emmanuel Rodriguez wrote:
>>
>> Is it possible to throw an blessed exception from XS code? If so how
>> can I achieve this? Otherwise, how can I propagate an error as a
>> string and free the string?
>
> Haven't tried myself, but: Set $@ yourself and then croak(NULL). From
> perlapi.pod:
>
>                  errsv = get_sv("@", GV_ADD);
>                  sv_setsv(errsv, exception_object);
>                  croak(NULL);
>

It works, at least no crashes so far :)

Another question: since I'm returning now the sv exception_object, do
you know if I have to call sv_2mortal() on it?

Thanks!
-- 
Emmanuel Rodriguez