On 26 October 2016 at 12:48, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
On 26 October 2016 at 12:45, Edward Diener wrote:
If I have code asuch as:
std::stringstream ss;
ss.exceptions(std::ios_base::failbit | std::ios_base::badbit);
char c;
ss >> c;
I would except an exception of std::ios_base::failure to be thrown yet gcc
6.2 is throwing some other exception. Is there a reason for this ?
There are two versions of std::ios::failure, one using the old ABI
(called std::ios_base::failure) and one using the new ABI (called
std::ios_base::[abi:__cxx11]failure).
You're trying to catch the new one, but the library throws the old
one. I'm probably going to change the library to throw the new one for
GCC 7.
I forgot to say, the reason for the two versions is that C++11
required an ABI break for that type, adding a new std::system_error
base class, with extra data members. That base class wasn't present in
C++98 (because the type didn't exist) and so we've been shipping a
library for years that throws the old type.
They both have a base class of std::runtime_error so you can still
catch it as that, or std::exception.