Re: [Boost-users] Exception handling inside a dll

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Exception handling inside a dll
From: Boris (boriss_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-10-04 07:08:01

On Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:28:10 +0200, Matthew LaCrosse  
<mlacrosse3_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm writing a JNI dll that can be called from a Java GUI. The java  
> program
> passes a regex and a string to search. The dll function does a
> boost::regex_search and returns an IntArray with the results. The problem
> that I'm having is that bad expressions result in a crash. For instance,  
> if
> the user inputs \b as the regex and 'bad' as the string, the program
> crashes.

You must catch the exception in your C++ code and convert it to a Java  
exception yourself (I assume you want your Java code to catch the  
exception?).

Boris