From 8e6dd52683fee931235994c415aa4b9d303b1a32 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Dahl <ry@tinyclouds.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:45:04 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Hack to display more useful SyntaxError exceptions.

For some reason v8 doesn't include the frame with the syntax error in the
stack trace - so have to special case it.
---
 src/node.cc | 22 +++++++++++++++-------
 src/node.js |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/node.cc b/src/node.cc
index 30802665e5d..96f131939fa 100644
--- a/src/node.cc
+++ b/src/node.cc
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ const char* ToCString(const v8::String::Utf8Value& value) {
   return *value ? *value : "<str conversion failed>";
 }
 
-static void ReportException(TryCatch *try_catch) {
+static void ReportException(TryCatch *try_catch, bool show_line = false) {
   Handle<Message> message = try_catch->Message();
   if (message.IsEmpty()) {
     fprintf(stderr, "Error: (no message)\n");
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ static void ReportException(TryCatch *try_catch) {
     if (raw_stack->IsString()) stack = Handle<String>::Cast(raw_stack);
   }
 
-  if (stack.IsEmpty()) {
+  if (show_line) {
     // Print (filename):(line number): (message).
     String::Utf8Value filename(message->GetScriptResourceName());
     const char* filename_string = ToCString(filename);
@@ -353,7 +353,9 @@ static void ReportException(TryCatch *try_catch) {
       fprintf(stderr, "^");
     }
     fprintf(stderr, "\n");
+  }
 
+  if (stack.IsEmpty()) {
     message->PrintCurrentStackTrace(stderr);
   } else {
     String::Utf8Value trace(stack);
@@ -736,7 +738,7 @@ Handle<Value> DLOpen(const v8::Arguments& args) {
   return Undefined();
 }
 
-v8::Handle<v8::Value> Compile(const v8::Arguments& args) {
+Handle<Value> Compile(const Arguments& args) {
   HandleScope scope;
 
   if (args.Length() < 2) {
@@ -747,11 +749,17 @@ v8::Handle<v8::Value> Compile(const v8::Arguments& args) {
   Local<String> source = args[0]->ToString();
   Local<String> filename = args[1]->ToString();
 
-  Handle<Script> script = Script::Compile(source, filename);
-  if (script.IsEmpty()) return Undefined();
+  TryCatch try_catch;
 
-  Handle<Value> result = script->Run();
-  if (result.IsEmpty()) return Undefined();
+  Local<Script> script = Script::Compile(source, filename);
+  if (try_catch.HasCaught()) {
+    // Hack because I can't get a proper stacktrace on SyntaxError
+    ReportException(&try_catch, true);
+    exit(1);
+  }
+
+  Local<Value> result = script->Run();
+  if (try_catch.HasCaught()) return try_catch.ReThrow();
 
   return scope.Close(result);
 }
diff --git a/src/node.js b/src/node.js
index 2109e9c658b..a8eba1e060c 100644
--- a/src/node.js
+++ b/src/node.js
@@ -921,9 +921,9 @@ Module.prototype.loadScript = function (filename, loadPromise) {
     var wrapper = "var __wrap__ = function (exports, require, module, __filename) { "
                 + content
                 + "\n}; __wrap__;";
-    var compiledWrapper = process.compile(wrapper, filename);
 
     try {
+      var compiledWrapper = process.compile(wrapper, filename);
       compiledWrapper.apply(self.exports, [self.exports, require, self, filename]);
     } catch (e) {
       loadPromise.emitError(e);