exception handling (egsc-1.0.3, linux)

[Mike Stump]

> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 15:32:28 +0200
> From: Thomas Binder <binder@iue.tuwien.ac.at>

> I found a strange behaviour in the exception-handling of egcs-1.0.3.

> It seems that an exception cannot be caught if it is thrown in a function
> which is called via a function pointer. The program terminates with the
> message 

I tried a compiler from 8/15 and it worked fine, so I suspect this
will be fixed in egcs 1.1.  You can try a newer snapshot if you want.