From: d DOT vrabel AT n-shropshire DOT ac DOT uk (David Vrabel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: try, throw and catch
Date: Fri, 01 May 1998 06:52:53 GMT
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"Γιάννης Κάππας" <ikappa AT essex DOT ac DOT uk> wrote:

>    I cant get the exception mechanism under g++ 2.8 to work. Even simple
>exceptions as try { throw anexceptionclass();} catch(anexceptionclass) {}.
>The program terminates with an `abort!'. Why is that????
There is a bug which causes the normal method of exception handling
not to work.  Use the -fsjlj-exceptions switch when compiling to use a
alternative method which works.  I understand that the bug will be
fixed in 2.8.1.

David.


David Vrabel  d DOT vrabel AT n-shropshire DOT ac DOT uk
A poor student (aren't they all) at:
North Shropshire College
Oswestry, Shropshire, UK