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RE: Cygwin Setup: Fatal Error: Uncaught Exception
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Dave Korn <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:37:36 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: RE: Cygwin Setup: Fatal Error: Uncaught Exception
- References: <001501c621dc$0229e6a0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Dave Korn wrote:
> Igor wrote:
>
> > I've looked at this a bit. Here's the weird part: the error
> > says "Uncaught Exception", but all the throws of that
> > exception appear to be properly wrapped in try/catch blocks.
> > So a simple "change exception into an mbox" kind of solution
> > won't work here. More debugging is needed.
>
> That's because the io_stream code throws an invalid_argument, which is
> derived from std::exception, but our code only catches Exception, which
> is our custom exception type.
Nope. It's the same old Exception, and it is indeed uncaught -- I just
missed one use. See the rest of the thread, plus the patch on
cygwin-apps.
Igor
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