2 * @brief Work around MSVC's unhelpful non-standard invalid parameter handling.
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21 #ifndef XAPIAN_INCLUDED_MSVCIGNOREINVALIDPARAM_H
22 #define XAPIAN_INCLUDED_MSVCIGNOREINVALIDPARAM_H
24 // __STDC_SECURE_LIB__ doesn't appear to be publicly documented, but including
25 // in this check appears to be a good idea. We cribbed this test from the
26 // python sources - see, for example,
27 // https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/74c3ea0a0f6599da7dd9a502b5a66aeb9512d8c3
28 #if defined _MSC_VER && _MSC_VER >= 1400 && defined __STDC_SECURE_LIB__
29 # include <cstdlib> // For _set_invalid_parameter_handler(), etc.
30 # include <crtdbg.h> // For _CrtSetReportMode, etc.
32 /** A dummy invalid parameter handler which ignores the error. */
33 static void dummy_handler(const wchar_t*,
41 // Recent versions of MSVC call an "_invalid_parameter_handler" if a
42 // CRT function receives an invalid parameter. However, there are cases
43 // where this is totally reasonable. To avoid the application dying,
44 // you just need to instantiate the MSVCIgnoreInvalidParameter class in
45 // the scope where you want MSVC to ignore invalid parameters.
46 class MSVCIgnoreInvalidParameter
{
47 _invalid_parameter_handler old_handler
;
51 MSVCIgnoreInvalidParameter() {
52 // Install a dummy handler to avoid the program dying.
53 old_handler
= _set_invalid_parameter_handler(dummy_handler
);
54 // Make sure that no dialog boxes appear.
55 old_report_mode
= _CrtSetReportMode(_CRT_ASSERT
, 0);
58 ~MSVCIgnoreInvalidParameter() {
59 // Restore the previous settings.
60 _set_invalid_parameter_handler(old_handler
);
61 _CrtSetReportMode(_CRT_ASSERT
, old_report_mode
);
65 // Mingw seems to be free of this insanity, so for mingw, older MSVC versions,
66 // and other platforms define a dummy class to allow MSVCIgnoreInvalidParameter
67 // to be used unconditionally.
68 struct MSVCIgnoreInvalidParameter
{
69 // Provide an explicit constructor so this isn't a POD struct - this seems
70 // to prevent GCC warning about an unused variable whenever we instantiate
72 MSVCIgnoreInvalidParameter() { }