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Subject:	Re: c++ char exceptions
From:	"Michael D. Crawford" <crawford AT goingware DOT com>
To:	"Lassi A. Tuura" <lassi DOT tuura AT cern DOT ch>
Cc:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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Date:	25 Apr 2002 00:33:02 -0500
Message-Id:	<1019712784.423.254.camel@pishi>
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You're right, I wasn't thinking, if an exception isn't caught before it
leaves main it aborts the program.

So maybe codewarrior has a bug!

Mike

On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 06:33, Lassi A. Tuura wrote:
> > That shouldn't matter.  At the worst it should mean that the exception is not
> > caught by any of the catch clauses given, so the "return 0" would be taken.
> 
> It does matter -- in this case the exception was not handled, and
> therefore terminate() gets called, which probably called abort().  That
> is, the "return 0" is never taken, the exception leaks outside main().
> 
> //lat
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