Re: un-catched Exceptions in mixed C/C++ code

From:
=?UTF-8?B?RXJpayBXaWtzdHLDtm0=?= <Erik-wikstrom@telia.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:56:25 GMT
Message-ID:
<dRT9j.1823$R_4.1402@newsb.telia.net>
On 2007-12-18 18:36, wrungel wrote:

Exceptions thrown by C++ function which is called by a C-function
which is called by a C++ function are not catched by outermost C++
function.

Operating system: Linux
Compiler: GNU GCC Version 4.2.1

file x.cc:
main ()
{
  try {
    y_func();
  } catch (...) {
     cout << "This line is NOT executed if _func() is compiled with C+
+ compiler";
  }
}

file y.c:
y_func()
{
   z_func();
}

file z.cc:
z_func()
{
  throw exception;
}

Files x.cc and z.cc are compiled with C++ (GNU) compiler.
File y.c is compiled with C (GNU) compiler.

If z_func() throws, exception is not catched by main function.
Program crashes with error message: terminate called after throwing of
an instance 'of std::exception'

If y.c is compiled with C++ (GNU) compiler, exception is catched by
main function (desired behavior).

The complete source code can be downloaded here:
http://freenet-homepage.de/wrungel/exceptions.tgz

The problem is that the y_func() comes from third-party library and
can not be recompiled with C compiler.

How can I catch exceptions in main function caused by z_func()?


You have to catch the exceptions in z_func() and convert them to error
codes or something like that (setting a global flag?) and then check for
that in main().

--
Erik Wikstr?m

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