Bug in egcs 1.1 -fno-rtti + exception = segfault

Jason Merrill jason@cygnus.com
Wed Oct 28 18:51:00 GMT 1998


>>>>> Valentin Bonnard <bonnardv@pratique.fr> writes:

 >> They don't need each other.  Exceptions need rtti, but the converse
 >> does not hold.

 > Hum. What about:

 > typeid (* (int*) 0);

 > is it undefined behaviour or abort or does it print "Sorry 
 > exceptions are disabled" ?

It calls __throw_bad_typeid, which throws, and since you didn't compile the
throwing code with EH support, calls terminate and aborts.

Jason



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