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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