[aosd-discuss] Support for error handling by aspect-oriented programming

[Nelis]

Markus Elfring wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The paper "On Typesafe Aspect Implementations in C++" 
> (http://www.aspectc.org/fileadmin/publications/etaps-sc-2005.pdf) by 
> Daniel Lohmann and Olaf Spinczyk shows an use case for the application 
> of AspectC++ for error checking. This document contains also a clear 
> description for the motivation where I'm also interested in to improve 
> software dvelopment.
> I am looking for a solution that can be completed besides the presented 
> Win32 API example.
>
> 1. I imagine that it needs some adjustment if it will be extended for 
> the POSIX API because it won't be enough to filter on functions with a 
> non-void return type. How can functions be excluded that return an input 
> parameter as their result to enable call chaining?
> Examples:
> http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/strcpy.html
> http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/strcat.html
>
> 2. Are any extensions for the pointcut expression syntax in the waiting 
> queue?
>
> 3. Is a (free) library of helper functions or corresponding function 
> objects available?
>
> 4. The following related information sources show also interesting 
> approaches.
> - "Error handling as an aspect" by Fernando Castor Filho, Alessandro 
> Garcia and Cecília Mary F. Rubira
>   http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1229485.1229486
>
> - Is the material from the talk "Aspectizing Design Patterns and 
> Exception Handling: The Devil is in the Details" by Alessandro Garcia 
> available online?
>   http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/research/events/colloquia/abstract.php?id=182
>   
Another interesting reference from the same authors (longer paper, 
conference paper):

@INPROCEEDINGS{Filho2006FSE,
  author = {Fernando Filho and Nelio Cacho and Raquel Ferreira and 
Eduardo Figueiredo
    and Alessandro Garcia and Cecilia Rubira},
  title = {{Exceptions and Aspects: The Devil is in the Details}},
  booktitle = {{Proc. Int. Conf. on Foundations on Software Engineering}},
  year = {2006}
}

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1181775.1181794&coll=&dl=ACM&type=series&idx=1181775&part=series&WantType=series&title=Foundations%20of%20Software%20Engineering&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618 

> - 
> http://www.jpmdesign.net/wordpress/2005/08/27/ehi-error-handling-infrastructure/
>
> 5. I guess that it will be a challenge to adapt such design options to 
> programming languages like C that do not support to throw and catch 
> exceptions as a built-in feature. Can this only be resolved with 
> implementations of metaobject protocols?
>
> Regards,
> Markus
>
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