Re: libstdc++/9756: __verbose_terminate_handler enters infinite loop

[Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com>]

The following reply was made to PR libstdc++/9756; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com>
To: "Stephen M. Webb" <stephenw@cryptocard.com>
Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: libstdc++/9756: __verbose_terminate_handler enters infinite loop
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 12:03:48 -0500

 On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:59:55AM -0500, Stephen M. Webb wrote:
 > On February 20, 2003 11:25 am, Phil Edwards wrote:
 > >
 > > The rethrow never rethrows; it never leaves the try block.  Instead,
 > > the support routine __cxa_rethrow calles std::terminate, and there's the
 > > infinite loop.
 > >
 > > I have no idea why; the core dump I get (and the rest of us got during
 > > testing) shows this:
 > >
 > > #0  0x40124a51 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6
 > > #1  0x40124872 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
 > > #2  0x40125986 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
 > > #3  0x400a1fcb in __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler() () at
 > > /home/pme/src/unified/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/vterminate.cc:96
 > 
 > Did you build with --enable-threads?
 
 Always.  
 
 Hmmm... you're on Linux.  Can you try building with --enable-__cxa_atexit
 and see what happens?
 
 I've put out a call for help; I'm not familiar with the guts of the _Unwind*
 framework.
 
 
 Phil
 
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