Bug 4223 – Throwing exception in finally block hides original exception

The message for assertion "a" will never be displayed, even though it certainly fails: void main() { try { assert(false, "a"); } finally { assert(false, "b"); } } Executing this program should display messages for both cases. Otherwise, it may be impossible to tell what actually failed: assertion b may depend on cleanup code that was supposed to be executed after assertion a. It is not unusual that other, seemingly unrelated, assertions fail once the program's state is "corrupted". Suggested fix: link the exceptions via Throwable.next.

This is an important matter. We don't want under any circumstances to irretrievably lose information. [email protected], I understand you may be frustrated by the slow response, but please don't undo the valuable work you've put into reporting these bugs. Thanks.

(In reply to comment #1) > This is an important matter. We don't want under any circumstances to > irretrievably lose information. [email protected], I understand you may be > frustrated by the slow response, but please don't undo the valuable work you've > put into reporting these bugs. Thanks. It's particularly ironic -- this bug was actually fixed. (Fixed in DMD 2.048).

Looks fixed. C:\>type bug4223.d void main() { try { assert(false, "a"); } finally { assert(false, "b"); } } C:\>dmd bug4223.d C:\>bug4223 [email protected](5): b [email protected](3): a