Re: [Boost-users] boost::filesystem exception not caught on MacOS X

From: Marshall Clow (marshall_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-12-09 11:31:40

>Marshall Clow wrote:
>>  The basic problem is that when the runtime compares type_info's to
>>  see if a catch block can catch the exception, it compares to see _if
>>  they have the same address_. This fails, of course, if a shared
>>  library and an application each have their own copy of the type_info
>>  structure. Mucking with the visibility of the symbols (your "loads of
>  > linker warnings" ) can fix this.
>
>[snip]
>
>I'm definitely using the static libs. Any hints?

If you're definitely using static libs, then the problem that I 
described isn't what's wrong.
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