Re: exception problem with cygwin - terminate called recursively

From:
peter koch <peter.koch.larsen@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 14 Jul 2011 09:00:47 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<27226563-9435-441f-a626-08e3ae85f811@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com>
Den torsdag den 14. juli 2011 17.48.24 UTC+2 skrev Philipp Kraus:

On 2011-07-14 17:11:25 +0200, peter koch said:

It seems to me that your exception either has no corresponding catch
clause or that it is thrown when another exception is active: this
causes std::terminate to be called.


on the main program the exception should be catched like:

myclass {
   mymethod() {
       if something
             mymethod()

       throw exception
  }
}

main() {
   myclass x;
   try {
       x.mymethod()
  } catch (...) {}

}


So you tried that program and it had the same behaviour?

In my optinion I think if I throw an exception the complete runing
process would be breaked down and the exception is send to the main
program, if there is a try-catch the exception is be handled, if not
the program terminates. I don't use any threads. I don't understand why
Windows should be handle the exception in another way than Linux and
OSX !?


It does not.

Thanks for your answer


If there is not a corresponding catch, std::terminate will be called. You said that std::terminate was called recursively?

Your problem might also be in the compiler flags used for the compiler.

/Peter

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