What are PANICs used for?

[advocatee]

May i know what panics are used for?
Example frm the btdiscoverer.cpp example:

Panic(EBTDiscoveryAttributeRequest);

where EBTDiscoveryAttributeRequest is defined somewhere in Btdiscovery.pan ( i guess pan has something to do with panics)

What exactly does it do? Is it emulator specific, or works on the device as well? I'm not very clear,

Thanks....

[laa-laa]

Panics are commonly used to terminate a program when it detects a programming error (for example, invalid data passed to a function). It works both on emulator and target. Technically a panic is a call to User::Panic with a supplied panic category name and panic number. You can use the name and number to figure out what went wrong.

Lauri