Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 11:35:47 +0200 (WET)
From: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
To: Ignacio García Pérez <igp AT vlc DOT servicom DOT es>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Help!!!, using exceptions.
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On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Ignacio García Pérez wrote:

> Hi, 
> 
> I just began today my very-first-stupid-program in C++ using
> exceptions. I so simple just to check that the exception handling
> mechanism is working.
> 
> Well, it doesn't work. I compiled it using GCC 2.81, compiles with no
> complaints but when I execute it, exits with an "Abort!" message when
> the exception is thrown:
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> void Test(int E) {
> 	puts("Test-BEGIN");
> 	if (E) throw (E);
> 	puts("Test-END");
> 	}
> 
> void main(void) {
> 
> 	puts("main-BEGIN");
> 
> 	try { Test(1); }
> 
> 	catch (int E)	{ puts("catch (int E)");    }
> 	catch (...) 	{ puts("catch (...)");      }
> 
> 	puts("main-END");
> 	}
> 
> The output is:
> "main-BEGIN"
> "Test-BEGIN"
> "Abort!"
> 
> 
> As you can see, even if I was doing something wrong that caused the
> integer exception not to be caught by the first "catch" block, the
> next "catch(...)" should catch ALL exceptions.
> 
> Any clues will be greatly appreciated.
> 

Perhaps You can find them in gnu/gcc-2.81/problems.txt