Re: Possible to do the following with Exceptions ?

From:
"Victor Bazarov" <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 4 May 2007 11:22:50 -0400
Message-ID:
<f1fj4b$irg$1@news.datemas.de>
asdf wrote:

The code I work on has a class called "CException" which gets thrown
whenever there is an exception.

Various other exception class derive from this. The ctor for the
class CException prints out the stack trace using a system function.
So in the code where there is a "throw CException()" the stack trace
gets printed. Even if a derived class gets throwen the stack trace
gets printed because a CException object is created.

Question I have is I want to do the same for exceptions thrown by the
standard c++ library. When I see a std::bad_alloc exception I would
like the stack trace. Is this possible.


It might be possible but it would be implementation- and platform-
specific. There is no standard C++ way of getting "the stack trace"
(there is no such standard term).

I could overried the global operator new and check for exception there
but am wondering if there is a more general mechanism available to do
this for all std exceptions.


No compiler-independent way, AFAIK.

V
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