GCC 3.3 exception problem

[Gary Hughes]

It turns out that I needed to upgrade binutils. I was using 2.11.2,
upgrading to 2.13.2.1 fixed the problem.

Thanks.

Gary.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org [mailto:gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org] On 
> Behalf Of Eric Botcazou
> Sent: Friday, 6 June 2003 8:51 PM
> To: geh@itga.com.au
> Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
> Subject: Re: GCC 3.3 exception problem
> 
> 
> > 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
>