Re: Exception handling

From:
Otis Bricker <obricker@my-dejanews.com>
Newsgroups:
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Date:
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:45:51 CST
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On 2008-04-27 00:29, howa wrote:

Hi,

I have simple code which provide exception handling functions, e.g.

//---------------------------------
try {
          int j = 2;
          int k = 0;
          double t = j / k;

     } catch (...) {
          cout<<"Error!";
     }

//---------------------------------

VS.net told me "unhandled exception".

But isn't catch (...) will cover as the default handler?


Division by zero does not throw an exception (in standard C++). MS have
some private extensions which can throw a structured exception in this
case but those are not (as far as I know) C++ exceptions and can not be
caught with catch().


I believe that compiler offeres the option to handle them as C++
exceptions. Sorry, I am not sure what version you are using but check for
the /EHa compiler flag in the documentaion.

And I think that as others have said or at least implied, this will be non-
standard behavior.

Otis

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