[gnugo-devel] gtp command `loadsgf' exits on parse error

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

for gnugo 3.6-pre3, i did:

$ echo bad > /tmp/bad
$ gnugo --quiet --mode gtp
loadsgf /tmp/bad
Empty file?
$

i.e., gnugo exited due to sgf misparse.  apparently,
in sgf/sgfnode.c (gnugo 3.6-pre3), there is:

static void
parse_error(const char *msg, int arg)
{
  fprintf(stderr, msg, arg);
  fprintf(stderr, "\n");
  exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}

that seems a bit harsh, and violates the gtp error-reporting
convention of displaying "?" and continuing.  is someone looking
into this?

thi