abort
and unwind
The previous section illustrates the error handling mechanism panic
. Different code paths can be conditionally compiled based on the panic setting. The current values available are unwind
and abort
.
Building on the prior lemonade example, we explicitly use the panic strategy to exercise different lines of code.
fn drink(beverage: &str) {// You shouldn't drink too much sugary beverages.if beverage == "lemonade" {if cfg!(panic="abort"){ println!("This is not your party. Run!!!!");}else{ println!("Spit it out!!!!");}}else{ println!("Some refreshing {} is all I need.", beverage); }}fn main() {drink("water");drink("lemonade");}
Here is another example focusing on rewriting drink()
and explicitly use the unwind
keyword.
#[cfg(panic = "unwind")]fn ah(){ println!("Spit it out!!!!");}#[cfg(not(panic="unwind"))]fn ah(){ println!("This is not your party. Run!!!!");}fn drink(beverage: &str){if beverage == "lemonade"{ ah();}else{println!("Some refreshing {} is all I need.", beverage);}}fn main() {drink("water");drink("lemonade");}
The panic strategy can be set from the command line by using abort
or unwind
.
rustc lemonade.rs -C panic=abort