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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 14:05:16 +0200
From: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov AT syntrex DOT com>
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To: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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Subject: Re: setup.exe exception handling guidelines
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Hello Robert,

Tuesday, April 30, 2002, 1:09:48 PM, you wrote:

[snip]

RC> Exceptions that can be thrown:

RC> I'm going to create a base Exception class, from which all thrown
RC> exceptions should derive. No char/string or String exceptions are
RC> allowed. This allows a generic catch-all Exception handler, and by
RC> subclassing, more specific handlers can sit in front of it.

What about the standard C++ library exception class ? In the recent threads
regarding setup and libgetopt++ I red that we libstdc++ can be used
now ?