Re: GDB is preventing my catch blocks in my C++ program

[Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>]

Hi Claude,

Please make sure to do a reply all so everyone on the list can see your
reply and contribute.

On 2022-04-12 21:28, Claude Robitaille wrote:
> Thanks Simon for the quick reply.
> 
> I can single step the program up to the point where an exception is thrown. And I did set a breakpoint inside the catch statement but no success (earlier breakpoint in the code are working as expected).
> 
> Here is what appears on the console (yes, it is Windows)
> 
> Listening on port 2345
> Remote debugging from host 192.168.70.8, port 34542
> Error while doing a GetTokenInformation - Unknown errorLOGGER NOT INITIALIZED:
>                 *********************************************************************************************
> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'sf::context::tGlobal::envVariableMissing'
> 
> Child exited with status 3

> 
> 
> The string that starts with Error blah blah is my own std::cout earlier in the program. Same with the line with the ******
> and the LOGGER xxxx is from the g3log library in my program.
> 
> The exception instance is definitely what my program is throwing.

Indeed, that makes it clear it's not gdbserver crashing.

I don't have any idea at the moment about how gdb/gdbserver could affect
the execution of your program in this way.

> I guess Child exited is from gdb.

Yes.

Simon