Exception handling

[Jeff Sturm]

> On 26-Aug-2002, Serguei I. Ivantsov <admin@gsc-game.kiev.ua> wrote:
> > Please help me with exception handling under gcc
> > ...
> > Execution stops after "Floating point exception" and never riches catch
> > section.

It seems the term "exception" is confusingly overloaded in the OP's
message.

The try...catch construct is intended to handle C++ exceptions, not signals.
A "floating point exception" from the OS has nothing to do with the
former.

On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> This code is not portable.  According to the ANSI/ISO C++ 98 standard,
> your program has undefined behaviour.

Right.  In GCC, it is sometimes possible to throw exceptions from signal
handlers, however it is not portable.  There are examples in libgcj.

Jeff