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- From: cflatter@nrao.edu (Chris Flatters)
- Newsgroups: gnu.g++.help
- Subject: Re: g++ exception handling
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.185340.6354@nrao.edu>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 18:53:40 GMT
- References: <1992Jul28.172450.23644@ichips.intel.com>
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- In article 23644@ichips.intel.com, tmcconne@sedona.intel.com (Tom McConnell) writes:
- >
- >In article <1992Jul28.040201.5029@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>, helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- >> I was hacking around in the bison files for gcc 2.2.2 and came
- >> across the comment which said that gcc 2.2.2 supports ANSI
- >> exception handling syntax, but use at your own risk.
- >>
- >> Has anyone had any trouble with them? Are they pretty robust?
- >>
- >> Could someone explain to me the syntax and how they work? I'm
- >> familier with lispish exception handling--is it similar in
- >> concept?
- >>
- >> Thank-you kindly, in advance.
- >
- > My experiance with gcc and exception handling is that it does not work. The
- >code is "there" but does not seem to be functional. I spent some time trying to
- >write a working exception program, then spent some time debugging gcc, to no
- >avail.
- >
- > I spent some time talking to other people, and my understanding that exception
- >handling does not currently work :(
-
- When the bison grammar files note that they support ANSI exception handling syntax
- that is exactly what they mean: GNU C++ will parse ANSI-style exception handling
- code if you give it the correct -f flag but there is (as yet) no run-time support.
-
- Chris Flatters
- cflatter@nrao.edu
-