middle-end/8405: GCC 3.2: 'throw "exception";' not caught by catch

[bangerth@dealii.org]

Synopsis: GCC 3.2: 'throw "exception";' not caught by catch

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: bangerth
State-Changed-When: Wed Oct 30 12:55:51 2002
State-Changed-Why:
    Not a bug. An exception specification attached to a function
    does not imply any conversion of the exception actually thrown.
    
    You have to throw std::string("something").
    
    The program aborts since the exception actually thrown
    does not match the exception specification of the function.
    I don't know it right off my head what happens exactly in
    this case (look it up in any book on C++), but this leads
    either to raising a special exception or calling
    uncaught_exception or some such function. In any case,
    the catch(...) clause is not invoked in this case.

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