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Re: like to know why it is segmentation fault on simple throw-exception program

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On 6/2/2011 1:28 AM, Paavo Helde wrote:
> eric<cneric12lin0@gmail.com>  wrote in
> news:49d055a9-79d3-4e35-b8c8-7101bbc845d0@l2g2000prg.googlegroups.com:
>
>> Dear Victor or advanced c++ program(especially on g++ camp):
>>    I follow many of your suggestion, ie change&&  to || in push
>> then
>> after it run
>> -------------
>> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'char const*'
>> Aborted
>> ----------this is better than Segmentation fault, but still not
>> expected-------
>
> It looks like you still throw a char* pointer instead of bound_err, against
> Victor's suggestions. Calling terminate() is expected behavior to me in
> this case (and also demonstrates why (non-empty) exception specifications
> are bad).

IOW, try changing your

     throw ("blah");
to
     throw bound_err("blah");

or change your 'catch' code to catch a pointer to const char *and* drop 
the exception specification.  Your function does not throw what it is 
declared to throw.

V
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like to know why it is segmentation fault on simple throw-exception program eric <cneric12lin0@gmail.com> - 2011-06-01 15:01 -0700
  Re: like to know why it is segmentation fault on simple throw-exception program Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-06-02 10:16 +1200
    Re: like to know why it is segmentation fault on simple throw-exception program Victor Bazarov <v.bazarov@comcast.invalid> - 2011-06-01 18:34 -0400
      Re: like to know why it is segmentation fault on simple throw-exception   program Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-06-02 10:44 +1200
        Re: like to know why it is segmentation fault on simple throw-exception   program Victor Bazarov <v.bazarov@comcast.invalid> - 2011-06-01 18:46 -0400
          Re: like to know why it is segmentation fault on simple throw-exception program eric <cneric12lin0@gmail.com> - 2011-06-01 20:07 -0700
            Re: like to know why it is segmentation fault on simple throw-exception program Paavo Helde <myfirstname@osa.pri.ee> - 2011-06-02 00:28 -0500
              Re: like to know why it is segmentation fault on simple throw-exception program Victor Bazarov <v.bazarov@comcast.invalid> - 2011-06-02 07:59 -0400
        Re: like to know why it is segmentation fault on simple throw-exception program red floyd <redfloyd@gmail.com> - 2011-06-02 11:20 -0700
  Re: like to know why it is segmentation fault on simple throw-exception program Victor Bazarov <v.bazarov@comcast.invalid> - 2011-06-01 18:44 -0400

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