Re: Timerproc exception
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 23:18:01 -0700, Geoff Cohen
<GeoffCohen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
Thanks. I realise I'm going to have to read up a lot on exceptions if I want
to know what's really going on. For the record, here's the essence of what
happened:
(using VC++ 6 with default setting for /EH)
void CALLBACK timerproc(..)
{
try {
...
FILE *fp;
...
fgets (..., fp); // sometimes fp is NULL!
...
}
catch (CException *e) {..}
catch (std::exception &e) {..}
..
} // end of timerproc
A program log tells me that 'fgets' is entered, but does not return by the
usual route, nor is an exception caught; but the timer proc is re-entered
normally when the timer next fires.
At least my bug ultimately has a trivial solution, making sure fp != NULL,
but it was hellish to find!
I can't comment on the omitted code, but the code you've shown doesn't
throw C++ exceptions, so it's not surprising that neither of the catch
handlers is entered. I suspect the answer is related to what I posted in my
last message.
--
Doug Harrison
Visual C++ MVP
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