On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 11:22 -0500, Dale Rahn wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 05:10:22PM +0200, Ian Delahorne wrote: > > I've run into a problem with throwing (or rather, catching) exceptions > > over shared library boundaries in 3.9. When I try to catch an exception > > in my application that has been thrown inside a shared library, the > > exception isn't caught, but instead causes the program to exit with > > SIGABRT. If I link statically it works (not surprising), but this also > > works on OpenBSD 3.7 when linked dynamically. > > > > I wrote a simple application to test this, available at > > http://www.stacken.kth.se/~ian/exception_test.tar.gz. Am I missing > > something when compiling? Or has something radically changed in 3.9? > > > Shared libraries are to be built using the C/C++ frontend, not ld directly. > > If your Makefile is changed from > $(LD) -shared test.o $(LIBS) -o $(TARGET) -lstdc++ > to > $(CXX) -shared test.o $(LIBS) -o $(TARGET) -lstdc++ > > It appears to catch the exception just fine.
Ah, thanks for pointing that out. /Ian
