re: c++ exceptions causing abort
re: c++ exceptions causing abort
- Subject: re: c++ exceptions causing abort
- From: Keith Ray <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 11:39:19 -0800
You could write code to translate C++ exceptions into Cocoa exceptions
and vice versa, and someone already has done a lot of work for this...
see "Membrane Library" at
http://www.umbar.com/membrane/
> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 16:09:29 +0000
> From: Benjohn <email@hidden>
> Subject: c++ exceptions causing abort
> To: Cocoa Dev <email@hidden>
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> Our application uses some cross platform c++ code that can throw c++
> exceptions. We would like to catch otherwise unhandled c++ exceptions
> close to the main event loop, and display a suitable error dialogue.
> This seems like it should be reasonably easy to do by using a custom
> NSApplication that replaces some methods with calls to the super
> object wrapped in a try catch block.
>
> Having tried this though, it doesn't work. We have found that if a c++
> throw and its catch are separated by App Kit or Foundation functions,
> the catch handler isn't called, and instead the program aborts.
>
> ie:
>
> Our c++ code - throw occurs here.
> Our c++ code
> Our c++ code
> App Kit / Foundation
> App Kit / Foundation
> App Kit / Foundation
> App Kit / Foundation
> Our handler - catch here doesn't work.
> App Kit / Foundation
> App Kit / Foundation
> Root of the stack
>
> We have a small project that will reproduce this.
>
> We're getting a bit desperate for a solution or explanation, and have
> failed to find any leads. I wouldn't be surprised if we had some
> compiler flags set wrong, but we've not found anything that makes a
> difference.
>
> Please could someone tell me if this is not possible (c++ exceptions
> can't be thrown through app kit / foundation methods, for eg).
> Alternatively, could someone confirm if it's definitely possible, and
> we must have something set up wrong.
>
> Thanks very much,
> Benjohn
>
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