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In article 4549@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de, patz@rvs.uni-hannover.de (Frank Patz, SWL) writes:
>In article 14212@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU, rad2r@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Robert DeLine) writes:
>>
>>I've noticed that gcc 2.1 now supports templates. (yeah!)  I've
>>heard rumors that it also supports some form of exception
>>handling.  Is this true?  If so, what's the syntax?  (I tried the
>>try/catch/throw syntax of the C++ 3.0 definition, but that didn't
>>work.)
>
>Try to get the last version of g++ that was distributed separately 
>(g++-1.4xx I think). The manual (written by M. Tiemann) contained 
>a description of some form of exception handling. I don't know if 
>that still works.

There is a flag (-fansi-exceptions) that causes gcc 2.1 to accept ANSI C++
excpetion syntax.  Comments in the code suggest that gcc does not use the
ANSI C++ exception semantics however (the stack isn't unwound and destructors
are not called).  Unfortunately the routines that support this appear to
have gone AWOL:  you will get undefined symbols if you try to link code
using -fansi-exceptions.  This is rather a pity:  a broken implementation
of exceptions would be better than none at all.

If I remember correctly, you will also get undefined symbol errors if
you try and use the old GNU exception syntax.

	Chris Flatters
	cflatter@nrao.edu