Subject: Re: c++ char exceptions
From: "Lassi A. Tuura" <[email-masked]>
To: "Michael D. Crawford" <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 13:33:13 +0200

> 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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