Exception handling

Article View: gnu.gcc.bug

Article #6131

#6131

From: Waye-Ian CHIEW
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 00:00

23 lines
902 bytes

Hello!



   class General { };
   class Specific : public General { };

   int main () {
      try { 
	 throw New Specific;
      }

      catch ( General* general ) { }
   }

  
This falls though without catching and aborts.  Why doesn't gcc match the Specific object to General?



-- Ian!!
ASM programmers drive stick shifts.

Technical Details

Message-ID: <199612060116.MAA09973@cat.cs.mu.OZ.AU>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 113d02,b8592ac7ef932823,start
X-Google-Attributes: gid113d02,public
From: wchi@students.cs.mu.oz.au (Waye-Ian CHIEW)
Subject: Exception handling
Date: 1996/12/06
Message-ID: <199612060116.MAA09973@cat.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
X-Deja-AN: 202595562
sender: bug-gcc-request@prep.ai.mit.edu
content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
x-gateway: relay6.UU.NET from bug-gcc to gnu.gcc.bug; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 20:17:43 EST
mime-version: 1.0
newsgroups: gnu.gcc.bug
x-mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23]