GCC 3.3 exception problem

[Eric Botcazou]

> I have just download and built GCC 3.3 and C++ exceptions are causing
> problems. Whenever I throw and exception my program aborts and dumps core.
>
> The following program is an example.
>
> #include <iostream>
>
> int main()
> {
>     try
>     {
>         throw 5;
>     }
>     catch(int i)
>     {
>         std::cerr << i << std::endl;
>     }
>     catch(...)
>     {
>         std::cerr << "unknown" << std::endl;
>     }
>
>     return 0;
> }

I can't reproduce with your testcase.

> Here is the configuration of gcc.
>
> geh@lightning:~> gcc-3.3 -v
> Reading specs from
> /export/development/gcc-3.3/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/3.3/specs
> Configured with: ../gcc-3.3/configure --prefix=/export/development/gcc-3.3
> --program-suffix=-3.3 --disable-shared --enable-threads
> --enable-languages=c,c++ --with-ld=/usr/local/bin/ld --with-gnu-ld
> Thread model: posix
> gcc version 3.3

Same configuration here, except for the linker which is the Sun linker.

Could you run 'ldd' on your testcase executable? Do you have a 3.2.x version 
installed on the same machine?

-- 
Eric Botcazou