bizarre exception problem

[Jeremy Sanders]

Hi -

Maybe someone could tell me why this exception isn't caught? I'm not sure 
whether it's a compiler bug. It used to work under gcc-2.96 (RedHat). It's 
a snippet as I can't seem to get it to fail if I compile it by itself...

   void param::interpret_and_catch()
   {
     try {
       throw except_invalid_at_file("foo");
       interpret();
     }
     catch(const except_invalid_at_file e) {
       cerr << "Cannot open parameter file " << e() << "\n\n";
       show_autohelp();
     }
     catch(const except_returnstr e) {
       cerr << "Option " << e() << " invalid\n\n";
       show_autohelp();
     }
   }

where:

   class except
   {
   public:
   };

   class except_returnstr : public except
   {
   public:
     except_returnstr(const std::string& uswitch) : m_switch(uswitch) {}
     const std::string &operator()() const { return m_switch; }
   private:
     const std::string m_switch;
   };

   class except_undef_switch : public except_returnstr
   {
   public:
     except_undef_switch(const std::string &uswitch)
       : except_returnstr(uswitch) {}
   };



the code core when run. gdb shows

#0  0x41000c32 in _dl_sysinfo_int80 () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#1  0x4103f989 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#2  0x41041342 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#3  0x00e3b727 in __cxxabiv1::__terminate(void (*)()) (
     handler=0x41041170 <abort>)
     at ../../../../gcc-3.2.1/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/eh_terminate.cc:47
#4  0x00e3b774 in std::terminate() ()
     at ../../../../gcc-3.2.1/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/eh_terminate.cc:57
#5  0x00e3b8e6 in __cxa_throw (obj=0x9853630, tinfo=0x0, dest=0)
     at ../../../../gcc-3.2.1/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/eh_throw.cc:77
#6  0x08055197 in parammm::param::interpret_and_catch() (this=0xbfff8cc0)
     at param.cc:95


The compiler options are pretty standard (-O0 -g -Wall).

Thanks

Jeremy

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