[cfe-dev] terminate called, but shouldn't be

[Paul J. Lucas]

On May 3, 2012, at 12:20 PM, Eric Christopher wrote:

> On May 3, 2012, at 11:18 AM, "Paul J. Lucas" <paul at lucasmail.org> wrote:
> 
>> Given this program:
>> 
>>> #include <stdexcept>
>>> #include <iostream>
>>> 
>>> using namespace std;
>>> 
>>> int main() {
>>> try {
>>>   throw std::runtime_error( "whoops!" );
>>> }
>>> catch ( std::exception const &e ) {
>>>   cout << e.what() << endl;
>>> }
>>> return 0;
>>> }
>> 
>> and compiled with g++ under cygwin, I get only the output "whoops!" as expected.  When compiled with clang++ 3.0 under MinGW, I get:
>> 
>>> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
>>> what():  whoops!
>>> 
>>> This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
>>> Please contact the application's support team for more information.
>> 
>> Why?  terminate should NOT be called since the exception is caught.
> 
> With ToT clang on darwin it works fine.

As nice at that is, I also need to have code compile and execute as expected under Windows.

- Paul