[Ilugc] Exception handling problem(g++)

[Suriya Narayanan M S]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 02:59:57AM +0530, VENKATRAMAN.D at HUTCHINDIA.com wrote:
>  
> int main( )
> {
>     for( int i = 0; i < 3; i++ )
>     {
>         try {
>             throwFunc( i ) ;
>         }
>         catch( ... ) {
>             cout << "exception caught" << endl ;
>         }
>  
>     }// for loop
>  
>     return( 0 ) ;
> }
>  
> 
> void throwFunc( int i )
> {
>     int x = 5, y = 0, r = 0 ;
>      r = x /y ;
>  }
>  

throwFunc does not ``throw'' any exception as you expect it to. C++
exceptions are different from processor exceptions. x/y raises a
division by zero exception. You should instead have

if (y == 0) {
    throw EXCEPTION;
}

HTH,
Suriya