Re: Which exception it is?

From:
"Peter" <junk189973@sbcglobal.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:27:02 -0700
Message-ID:
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"mos" <mmosquito@163.com> wrote in message
news:f5ippi$kd3$1@news.cn99.com...

Hi!
   When call a null function pointer will cause a execption, but it can't
be caught as std::exception, then which exception it is?
   The following code is a example:

typedef void (*testfunc)(int a);

void test()
{
testfunc func = NULL;
func(10);
iTest* p = NULL;
p->Test(10);
}

int main()
{
try
{
 test();
}
catch(std::exception& x)
{
 std::cout << "exception: " << x.what() << std::endl;
}
catch(...)
{
 std::cout << "unknown" << std::endl;
}
return 0;
}


this is a windows-only feature.
I think it is a useful feature and I don't understand why it is not in the
standard.
Some UNIX gurus probably thought that their signal() implementation is the
best what can be achieved.
On Windows a structured exception will be thrown -- assuming you have
structured exceptions enabled in your compiler.
You can overload the type of exception thrown by setting a handler using the
_set_se_translator() function.
In this handler you would have to throw a C++ Exception yourself -- ideally
a different one for every different code.

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