Is the following code legal? What I'm trying to do is to detect the type of
the unhandled exception inside a terminate handler. It works on some
compilers (es. Borland 4.0), but it fails (abort) on others (es. Visual C++
4.0 and 5.0).
Reading the April '96 DWP, I haven't found a definitive answer...
I'd appreciate if you could also email me any answer, as sometimes the
articles does not appear at my newsserver.
Thanks,
Carlo

#include <iostream.h>
#include <except.h>

void f()
  {
  try
    {
    throw ;
    }
  catch( int x )
    {
    cout << "integer exception" ;
    }
  catch( ... )
    {
    cout << "other exception" ;
    }
  exit( 1 ) ;
  }

int main()
  {
  set_terminate( f ) ;
  throw "a" ;
  return 0 ;
  }




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