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* catching specific exceptions
@ 2011-11-11 20:11 Robert Lupton the Good
  2011-11-15 14:57 ` Tom Tromey
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From: Robert Lupton the Good @ 2011-11-11 20:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gdb

The online help (gdb 7.3) says:

> Raised exceptions may be caught:
>         catch throw               - all exceptions, when thrown
>         catch throw <exceptname>  - a particular exception, when thrown
>         catch catch               - all exceptions, when caught
>         catch catch <exceptname>  - a particular exception, when caught

But I don't think that this works, and the manual doesn't mention the <exceptname> version (instead delving into the gcc specifics of __raise_exception to achieve the same functionality).

So either there's a bug in the help, or in the manual, or both.

					R

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* Re: catching specific exceptions
  2011-11-11 20:11 catching specific exceptions Robert Lupton the Good
@ 2011-11-15 14:57 ` Tom Tromey
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Tom Tromey @ 2011-11-15 14:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Robert Lupton the Good; +Cc: gdb

>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Lupton the Good <rhl@astro.princeton.edu> writes:

Robert> The online help (gdb 7.3) says:
>> Raised exceptions may be caught:
>> catch throw               - all exceptions, when thrown
>> catch throw <exceptname>  - a particular exception, when thrown
>> catch catch               - all exceptions, when caught
>> catch catch <exceptname>  - a particular exception, when caught

Robert> But I don't think that this works, and the manual doesn't mention the
Robert> <exceptname> version (instead delving into the gcc specifics of
Robert> __raise_exception to achieve the same functionality).

Robert> So either there's a bug in the help, or in the manual, or both.

This feature was documented but never implemented.
I think it would be a good feature to have.  Here's the bug:

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9598

Tom

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