GHC/Err.lhs

\begin{code}

{-# OPTIONS_GHC -XNoImplicitPrelude #-}
{-# OPTIONS_HADDOCK hide #-}
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- |
-- Module      :  GHC.Err
-- Copyright   :  (c) The University of Glasgow, 1994-2002
-- License     :  see libraries/base/LICENSE
-- 
-- Maintainer  :  cvs-ghc@haskell.org
-- Stability   :  internal
-- Portability :  non-portable (GHC extensions)
--
-- The "GHC.Err" module defines the code for the wired-in error functions,
-- which have a special type in the compiler (with \"open tyvars\").
-- 
-- We cannot define these functions in a module where they might be used
-- (e.g., "GHC.Base"), because the magical wired-in type will get confused
-- with what the typechecker figures out.
-- 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

-- #hide
module GHC.Err
       (
         absentErr                 -- :: a
       , divZeroError              -- :: a
       , overflowError             -- :: a

       , error                     -- :: String -> a

       , undefined                 -- :: a
       ) where

#ifndef __HADDOCK__
import GHC.Types
import GHC.Exception
#endif

\end{code} %********************************************************* %* * \subsection{Error-ish functions} %* * %********************************************************* \begin{code}

-- | 'error' stops execution and displays an error message.
error :: [Char] -> a
error s = throw (ErrorCall s)

-- | A special case of 'error'.
-- It is expected that compilers will recognize this and insert error
-- messages which are more appropriate to the context in which 'undefined'
-- appears. 

undefined :: a
undefined =  error "Prelude.undefined"

\end{code} %********************************************************* %* * \subsection{Compiler generated errors + local utils} %* * %********************************************************* Used for compiler-generated error message; encoding saves bytes of string junk. \begin{code}

absentErr :: a

absentErr = error "Oops! The program has entered an `absent' argument!\n"

\end{code} Divide by zero and arithmetic overflow. We put them here because they are needed relatively early in the libraries before the Exception type has been defined yet. \begin{code}

{-# NOINLINE divZeroError #-}
divZeroError :: a
divZeroError = throw DivideByZero

{-# NOINLINE overflowError #-}
overflowError :: a
overflowError = throw Overflow

\end{code}