Re: catching exception in gdb

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 06:43:17PM -0400, Alain Magloire wrote:
> 
> Bonjour
> 
>   As suggested in the gdb doc, I was doing some hackish stuff in gdb-5.x to get catching exception working
> in the eclipse CDT IDE.  Using the C++ ABI and putting a "hidden" breakpoint in the "__cxa_xxx" functions.
> So far so good, but once stop how to extract the class deep in the internal of the ABI.
> I could not fine any ABI functions to do this nor walking through the arguments.
> 
> Any suggestions ?
> 
> gdb-6.x commands
>   catch throw <exceptname>  - a particular exception, when thrown
>   catch catch <exceptname>  - a particular exception, when caught
> do not seem to work
> 
> (gdb) catch catch Size
> Junk at end of arguments. 

You can do it with the runtime type information, but I never got around
to implementing it.  It's fairly simple.

"catch catch" and "catch throw" only work without arguments at the
moment.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz