Supress panics for ProfilerChan sends.

components/profile_traits/Cargo.toml

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ energy-profiling = ["energymon", "energy-monitor"]
 ipc-channel = "0.5"
 energymon = {git = "https://github.com/energymon/energymon-rust.git", optional = true}
 energy-monitor = {version = "0.2.0", optional = true}
+log = "0.3.5"
 plugins = {path = "../plugins"}
 serde = "0.8"
 serde_derive = "0.8"

components/profile_traits/lib.rs

@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@
 #![deny(unsafe_code)]
 
 extern crate ipc_channel;
+#[macro_use]
+extern crate log;
 extern crate serde;
 #[macro_use]
 extern crate serde_derive;

components/profile_traits/mem.rs

@@ -19,7 +19,9 @@ pub trait OpaqueSender<T> {
 
 impl<T> OpaqueSender<T> for Sender<T> {
     fn send(&self, message: T) {
-        let _ = Sender::send(self, message);
+        if let Err(e) = Sender::send(self, message) {
+            warn!("Error communicating with the target thread from the profiler: {}", e);
+        }
     }
 }
 
@@ -31,9 +33,11 @@ pub struct ProfilerChan(pub IpcSender<ProfilerMsg>);
 impl ProfilerChan {
     /// Send `msg` on this `IpcSender`.
     ///
-    /// Panics if the send fails.
+    /// Warns if the send fails.
     pub fn send(&self, msg: ProfilerMsg) {
-        self.0.send(msg).unwrap();
+        if let Err(e) = self.0.send(msg) {
+            warn!("Error communicating with the memory profiler thread: {}", e);
+        }
     }
 
     /// Runs `f()` with memory profiling.

components/profile_traits/time.rs

@@ -22,7 +22,9 @@ pub struct ProfilerChan(pub IpcSender<ProfilerMsg>);
 
 impl ProfilerChan {
     pub fn send(&self, msg: ProfilerMsg) {
-        let _ = self.0.send(msg);
+        if let Err(e) = self.0.send(msg) {
+            warn!("Error communicating with the time profiler thread: {}", e);
+        }
     }
 }