[Mono-bugs] [Bug 76661][Nor] Changed - runtime handles missing assemblies/classes etc. ungracefully

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Changed by miguel at ximian.com.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=76661

--- shadow/76661	2006-04-27 07:21:43.000000000 -0400
+++ shadow/76661.tmp.9444	2006-04-28 01:12:02.000000000 -0400
@@ -63,6 +63,18 @@
 error condition. A prime example is mono_class_init () which is called
 from a million places. Also, we initialize a lot of things lazily, so
 a function like mono_class_get_fields () which is supposed to be
 an iterator could run into a class load error, but it can't signal it
 since a NULL return value means 'end of iteration'.
 
+
+------- Additional Comments From miguel at ximian.com  2006-04-28 01:12 -------
+I agree, there are a lot of places where we should more gracefully
+handle errors, and the iterator case is probably going to be hard to
+cope with as you point out.
+
+But there is still some value in starting some of this work.   I have
+now a few tests passing without crashing Mono and producing the
+TypeLoadException (missing references to methods, fields, missing
+types from field definitions and the case of the first duplicated bug
+in this thread) handled.
+