Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 10:07:59 +0200 (WET)
From: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
To: Gerhard Gruber <sparhawk AT eunet DOT at>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Bug in DJGPP with exceptions?
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On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Gerhard Gruber wrote:

> I wrote a program that throws an exception when you read beyond EOF on a file.
> 
> 
> f(int i)
> {
>    if(i > Filelen)
>    {
>       errno = EDOM;
>       throw(errno);
>    }
> }
> 
> 
> a()
> {
>    try
>    {
>       f(x);
>    }
>    catch(int error)
>    {
>       break;
>    }
> }
> 
> The exception doesn't get caught and I alwasy get "Abort!" though I didn't
> change anything in the source and it worked with gcc 2.7. I also tried
> -fexceptions but there is no difference. Any suggestions?


I'm afraid You're using gcc-2.8.0. With 2.8.0 You should use 
-fsljl-exceptions (if I remember correctly) or (that is much better)
upgrade to gcc-2.8.1 that has exceptions support fixed. But READ
CAREFULLY files in gnu/gcc-2.8.1 after unpacking gcc281b.zip.