help catch catch and help catch throw help text

Phil Muldoon pmuldoon@redhat.com
Thu Jul 23 18:39:00 GMT 2009


On 07/23/2009 11:41 AM, Phil Muldoon wrote:
>
> (gdb) catch catch foo
> Junk at end of arguments.
>
> (gdb) catch throw foo
> Junk at end of arguments.
>
> I looked at the code and while they support conditions, they do not 
> appear to support named exceptions. These functions call 
> handle_gnu_v3_exceptions which basically set a breakpoint on 
> __cxa_begin_catch, or __cxa_throw depending on the command.
>
> Before I submit a documentation patchlet to remove the reference to 
> catching named exceptions, are there other cases languages/conditions 
> that I have not considered?
>
On the basis of "read the code, Luke",  I did and there isn't ;) I'll 
submit a patch.

Regards

Phil



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