Re: MFC App nor handling std::exception

From:
David Wilkinson <no-reply@effisols.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:50:52 -0400
Message-ID:
<uheELoU0IHA.2084@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>
PRMARJORAM wrote:

Guys,

The problem is - if an exception is thrown that does not derive from
CException, this is not propagating out of the throwing function.

Even if it is not std::exception.

So say:

    throw new CString("Testing");

the program will stop with unhandled exception at..

If in the throw function i add a try catch block then it handles it ok.
So even though i have catch handlers for each exception type that might be
thrown in calling functions, the throwing of a non CException does not leave
the function.

I cant believe this is correct? Why cant it do this?


PRMARJORAM:

OK, you are not talking about MFC, you are talking about the application not
stopping on uncaught std::exception. In fact the problem may be that MFC *is*
catching std::exception (presumably with catch(...)) and discarding it.

But I agree with Nick: you should catch std::exception yourself before you let
it propagate into MFC.

--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP

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