Re: [Boost-users] [Test] prevent exceptions from beeing caught

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Test] prevent exceptions from beeing caught
From: John Wilkinson (jwilkinson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-04-28 09:25:02

Have you tried setting a catchpoint to stop execution when the exception is thrown? (http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/gdb/gdb_31.html) 

John

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> From: boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden] [mailto:boost-users-
> bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Jan Rudoszanski
> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 2:28 AM
> To: boost-users_at_[hidden]
> Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Test] prevent exceptions from beeing caught
> 
> Hi
> 
>    Thanks for your reply!
> 
> >>     Is there any possibility for boost.test execution_monitor to not
> to
> >> catch exceptions thrown from code that I'm examining in a test case?
> >
> > Boost.Test does not prevent you from catching any exceptions. You can
> always say
> > 'catch throw' and it will stop at first exception being throw.
> >
> > Also I am not sure in general what do you expect to happened in case
> if
> > Boost.Test let's say do not catch your exception. How would it
> miraculously let
> > you know where exception comes from?
> 
> It's not a miracle its a debugger I'm saying about. I said that
> before. Just as I can "catch" a system error in GDB when running my
> test program under it, I would like to let debugger care for my
> uncaught exception. In such case GDB points me to the exact place
> where this particular exception was thrown, and additionally I have
> full stack trace and I can inspect every variable. It's like you throw
> an exception from main, and don't have any "catch" statements (I use
> GDB for debugging, maybe other debuggers/OS'es behave differently?).
> 
> > What I do recommend is to use Boost.Exception. These comes along with
> file+line
> > where it being thrown from.
> 
> Good point. I'll tr it right away.
> Thanks
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