From: Brian Corrie (brian.corrie++at++newmic.com)
Date: 12/06/2002 09:54:08
All,
A project I was involved with a year or so ago used exceptions extensively
and we never had any problems. This was on Irix primarily but we did have the
system running on Linux as well I think...
Brian
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dirk Scheffter [mailto:scheff++at++appss.de]
> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 6:33 AM
> To: info-performer Mailing List
> Subject: [info-performer] Re: info-performer Dec 05 2002
>
>
> Hi Marc,
>
> > I wanted to check if Performer could be linked against
> exception-enabled libraries.
> > Is it totally safe now (2.5) ?
>
> I guess: not.
>
> > Or should I find another library without the try-throw-catch stuff ?
>
> This is the safe way.
>
> However, you can easy check by yourself:
>
> Copy /usr/share/Performer/src/pguide/libpf/C++/simple.C
>
> and add a few lines at beginning:
>
> // ***** ExceptionTest *****
> // throws an exception
> void ExceptionTest(void)
> {
> throw int(1);
> }
>
> and inside of runtime loop:
>
> // make exception test
> try {
> ExceptionTest();
> }
> catch (int value) {
> printf("Exception '%d' catched.\n", value);
> }
>
> I did this a few months ago on Performer 2.5, Linux slackware,
> and it dumped core.
> I'm not sure about the sub-minor release we use. (2.5/2.5.1/2.5.2)
>
> Bummer! I wanted to port my XML reader (based on XercesC/SAX)
> from Irix to
> Linux which uses exceptions.
>
> Best regards,
> Dirk.
>
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