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The various PL_*() functions in SWI-Prolog.h
have
corresponding Plx_*() functions, defined in SWI-cpp2-plx.h
,
which is always included by SWI-cpp2.h
. There are three
kinds of wrappers, with the appropriate one being chosen according to
the semantics of the wrapped function:
false
,
indicating an error. The Plx_*() function checks for this and throws a PlException
object containing the error. The wrapper uses template<typename
C_t> C_t PlEx(C_t rc)
,
where C_t
is the return type of the PL_*() function.
true
if it succeeds and false
if it fails or
has a runtime error. If it fails, the wrapper checks for a Prolog error
and throws a PlException
object containing the error. The
wrapper uses template<typename C_t> C_t PlWrap(C_t
rc)
, where C_t
is the return type of the PL_*()
function.
A few PL_*() functions do not have a corresponding Plx*() function
because they do not fit into one of these categories. For example,
PL_next_solution() has multiple return values (PL_S_EXCEPTION
,
PL_S_LAST
, etc.) if the query was opened with the
PL_Q_EXT_STATUS
flag.
Most of the PL_*() functions whose first argument is of type
term_t
, atom_t
, etc. have corresponding
methods in classes PlTerm
, PlAtom
, etc.
Important: You should use the Plx_*() wrappers only in the context of a PREDICATE() call, which will handle any C++ exceptions. Some blob callbacks can also handle an exception (see section 2.6.8). Everywhere else, the result of calling a Plx_*() function is unpredicatable - probably a crash.