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- From: tiemann@cygnus.com
- Subject: Re: exceptions (try/catch) in gcc
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 23:55:30 GMT
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- To: help-gcc@prep.ai.mit.edu
- Date: 6 Jan 93 02:19:48 GMT
- Organization: VERITAS Software
- From: joshua@veritas.com (Joshua Levy)
- Subject: exceptions (try/catch) in gcc
-
- I can not compile simple C++ programs which contain exceptions,
- such as described in appendix B of the Lippman book (2nd edition).
- I have tried with gcc 2.2.2 and 2.3.3 on a SunOS 4.1.2 machine.
- Try does not seem to be a key word, nor does throw.
- Should this work? I thought gcc 2.x supported templates and
- exceptions...
-
- Joshua Levy (joshua@veritas.com)
-
- GNU C++ does support templates, but it does not (yet) support
- ANSI-style exceptions. Cygnus Support is targeting a June date for
- the release of a version which supports exceptions.
-
- It is a fair amount of work to implement this feature, and if you keep
- up to date on the bug-fixing we've been doing at Cygnus, you know that
- it's a fair amount of work just supporting GNU C++ users who report
- bugs to the net. I encourage people who wish to use GNU C++
- commercially to contact Cygnus Support (info@cygnus.com) for
- information about our commercial support services for GNU C++ and
- other GNU software. It is our customers who enable us to maintain GNU
- C++ as a viable (and friendly) alternative to proprietary software.
-
- Michael Tiemann
- Cygnus Support
-