These were previously reporting leaks due to various allocations not
getting cleaned up during the stack unwind, but at the current state of
the transition toward IntrusivePtr usage, theses tests no longer leak.
E.g. ones that throw interpreter exceptions, as those are currently
known to potentially cause leaks. Fixing the underlying leaks involves
the larger task of more IntrusivePtr usage.
Reference cycles may also cause leaks.
Scripting errors/mistakes now consistently generate a runtime error
which have the behavior of unwinding the call stack all the way out of
the current event handler.
Before, such errors were not treated consistently and either aborted
the process entirely or emitted a message while continuing to execute
subsequent statements without well-defined behavior (possibly causing
a cascade of errors).
The previous behavior also would only unwind out of the current
function (if within a function body), not out the current event
handler, which is especially problematic for functions that return
a value: the caller is essentially left a mess with no way to deal
with it.
This also changes the behavior of the startup/initialization process
to abort if there's errors during bro_init() rather than continue one
to the main run loop. The `allow_init_errors` option may change this
new, default behavior.
The hook being added is:
bool HookReporter(const std::string& prefix, const EventHandlerPtr event,
const Connection* conn, const val_list* addl, bool location,
const Location* location1, const Location* location2,
bool time, const std::string& buffer) override;
This hook gives access to basically all information that is available in
the function in Reporter.cc that performs the logging. The hook is
called each time when anything passes through the reporter in the cases
in which an event usually would be called. This includes weirds. The
hook can return false to prevent the normal reporter events from being
raised.