Re: Unusual program termination and exception handling

From:
Nikolay Ivchenkov <tsoae@mail.ru>
Newsgroups:
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Date:
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:49:24 CST
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On 15 Jun, 13:18, Daniel Krugler <daniel.krueg...@googlemail.com>
wrote:

My interpretation is, that the
exit of the handler does actually happen, when bullet three
of the list is evaluated:

"Finally, control is returned to the host environment [..]"

but not before. This again means that the two first bullets
describing the effects of exit(0) should happen in the context
of an unfinished exception handler (15.1 [except.throw]/7), which
means that the evaluation of the throw expressions without
operands will just reactivate the exception as described in
15.1 [except.throw]/6.


So, the caller of std::exit shall hold the control because other
behavior is not explicitly permitted, right?

Does this answer your question?


Almost :-)

Example 2:

    #include <cstdlib>
    #include <exception>
    #include <iostream>

    struct X
    {
        ~X()
        {
            std::cout << (int)std::uncaught_exception() << std::endl;
        }
    } x;

    struct Y
    {
        ~Y()
        {
            std::exit(0);
        }
    };

    void on_terminate()
    {
        std::cout << "on_terminate()" << std::endl;
        std::abort();
    }

    int main()
    {
        std::set_terminate(on_terminate);
        try
        {
            Y y;
            throw 0;
        }
        catch (int) {}
    }

Isn't the behavior of this program undefined? Must
std::uncaught_exception() return true? Note: GNU C++ calls
std::terminate.


Which version of GNU C++ are you referring to?


I tried mingw32-g++ ver. 4.5.0 (with -std=c++0x option) and mingw32-g+
+ ver. 3.4.5.

Do you have some specific wording in your mind, that should
lead to this conclusion of causing UB or calling terminate?


No. But I might overlook something.

Example 3:

    #include <cstdlib>
    #include <exception>
    #include <iostream>

    struct X
    {
        ~X()
        {
            std::cout << "~X()" << std::endl;
        }
    } x;

    void on_terminate()
    {
        std::exit(0);
    }

    int main()
    {
        std::set_terminate(on_terminate);
        throw;
    }

Isn't the behavior of this program undefined? According to 18.8.3.1,
"A terminate_handler shall terminate execution of the program without
returning to the caller." A terminate handler that calls std::exit can
eventually terminate execution of the program without returning to the
caller. It seems that the requirement is satisfied in this case.


I don't see why this program should possibly invoke undefined
behaviour.


If a terminate handler does not satisfy the required behavior as
described in 18.8.3.1, the behavior of the program that calls such a
handler is undefined, right? Is the requirement satisfied in the given
example? In general, std::exit can call a function that executes an
infinite loop (the regular program termination is impossible in such
case).

There is also old question asked in the following thread
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c++.moderated/msg/e30b3f1a8b1c4d09

According to your interpretation of N3092 - 5.3.5/7, the first delete-
expression in the example below shall call the deallocation function.

    #include <cstdlib>
    #include <iostream>

    struct X
    {
        void operator delete(void *p)
        {
            std::cout << "X::operator delete" << std::endl;
            ::operator delete(p);
        }
        ~X()
        {
            throw 0;
        }
    };

    struct Y
    {
        void operator delete(void *p)
        {
            std::cout << "Y::operator delete" << std::endl;
            ::operator delete(p);
        }
        ~Y()
        {
            std::abort();
        }
    };

    int main()
    {
        try
        {
            delete new X; // (1)
        }
        catch (int) {}

        delete new Y; // (2)
    }

Must the second delete-expression call the deallocation function?

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