G++ w/ C++ Exceptions

[James Paul Morgan]

On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Paul Prescod wrote:

I was not using exceptions, but I (foolishly) had a variable named 
"short" that really freaked out the compiler.  (I wasn't thinking and did 
"String short;"  I got the same error, over and over and over in an 
infinite loop.  For some reason, certain errors cannot be handled by the 
compiler.  Just like it gives a whole stack dump for a segmentation fault.

Btw, the Ctrl-C does not work under the current bash.


> When I compile certain C++ objects with -fexceptions, G++ goes berserk,
> even though the objects have no exception handling stuff in them (no
> try, catch, etc.). Here's what happens:
> 
> (e:\gcc\i386\lib\gcc-lib\i386\cygnus-2.7.2-961023\cc1plus.exe 1007) In
> cygwin_except_handler
> (e:\gcc\i386\lib\gcc-lib\i386\cygnus-2.7.2-961023\cc1plus.exe 1007) In
> cygwin_except_handler
> (e:\gcc\i386\lib\gcc-lib\i386\cygnus-2.7.2-961023\cc1plus.exe 1007) In
> cygwin_except_handler
> ...
> 
> And it goes on forever, until I hit Ctrl-C which may or may not cause
> Windows 95 to crash or Windows NT to launch Dr. Watson. (I presume
> that's a known bug too).
> 


See ya around the Mulberry bush.

--James

:)

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