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Subject:	RE: Cygwin Setup: Fatal Error: Uncaught Exception
Date:	Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:20:22 -0000
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Igor wrote:

> I've looked at this a bit.  Here's the weird part: the error
> says "Uncaught Exception", but all the throws of that
> exception appear to be properly wrapped in try/catch blocks.
> So a simple "change exception into an mbox" kind of solution
> won't work here.  More debugging is needed.


  That's because the io_stream code throws an invalid_argument, which is
derived from std::exception, but our code only catches Exception, which is
our custom exception type.





    cheers,
      DaveK
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