>> This probably means that exception handling is not working in your GCC >> build. You can verify this by writing and running a test program that throws >> and catches an exception.
Boris, I tried this with a 5 line main program and exception catching worked perfectly. Of course I was just throwing std::exception and not from library code, etc. Any other suggestions? Meantime I am installing a gcc 3.4.6 package (latest version I can find Sparc Solaris) to compiler and test Xerces 3.1.1 with. Philip