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Subject: RE: setup.exe exception handling guidelines
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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pavel Tsekov [mailto:ptsekov AT syntrex DOT com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 10:05 PM
> To: Robert Collins
> Cc: CygWin Apps
> Subject: Re: setup.exe exception handling guidelines
> 
> 
> 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 ?

Yes, libstdc++ can be used now. Whats the header for the C++ library
exception class?

Rob