Re: What happens when an exception is not caught?

From:

"Victor Bazarov" <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net>

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comp.lang.c++

Date:

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:32:34 -0400

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<faknch$s1d$1@news.datemas.de>

Digital Puer wrote:

Sorry for the rudimentary question. I found the following posting
online and did not know the answer myself.

"Reminds me of a time I had a phone interview concerning a C++ job.
Didn't help that the interviewer had a very thick Slavic accent. He
asked me what happens when an exception doesn't get caught. I told him
the program would terminate. He said that's not the answer he was
looking for. I gave him a kind of detailed description of the throw
process leading to "then it gets to the top level of the program and
if there is no exception handling there, the program terminates." He
said "no, what I was looking for is that the unhandledExceptionHandler
is called" (might not have the correct name.)"

Is there a default exception handler?

The default "unhandled exception handler" is "std::terminate". The
Standard describes the cases in which it's called in [except.terminate]
(15.5.1 in the current edition).

V
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