X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:37:36 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Dave Korn cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Cygwin Setup: Fatal Error: Uncaught Exception In-Reply-To: <001501c621dc$0229e6a0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Message-ID: References: <001501c621dc$0229e6a0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Dave Korn wrote: > 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. Nope. It's the same old Exception, and it is indeed uncaught -- I just missed one use. See the rest of the thread, plus the patch on cygwin-apps. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/