John Korb writes:

>A networking application (which works on the classics) is aborting when
>compiled with SPLash!  The abort appears to be generated within
>IPCSHUTDOWN.  Below is the abort message received:
>
>### IPCShutDown Virtual'Circuit ###
>**** Escape executed outside of TRY block; CODE = 00660016 (UNWIND 9).
>
>ABORT: ROUTSTAT.PUB.COMM
>NM SYS   a.00a8f288 dbg_abort_trace+$24
>NM PROG  3d8.00016e64 error_exit+$190
>
>Below is the fragment of source implicated:
>
>      Flags:=Graceful'Release'Bit;
>      IPCShutDown (Virtual'Circuit, Flags);

The problem is that you haven't passed the ipcStatus variable in the call
to IPCSHUTDOWN. The IPCSHUTDOWN is failing, and since you haven't
provided a way for NetIPC to return the failure status, it does an ESCAPE
(exception) instead. Since you don't have an active TRY block, this
aborts your program. Make sure that you provide a valid status variable
in your call and the problem will go away. (This is a good idea in
general.)

-- Bruce


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