From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20674 invoked by alias); 22 Feb 2008 17:45:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 20663 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Feb 2008 17:45:51 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from NaN.false.org (HELO nan.false.org) (208.75.86.248) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:45:32 +0000 Received: from nan.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF04298259; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:45:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from caradoc.them.org (22.svnf5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.183.55]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9825C981FC; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:45:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1JSbxh-0000v6-PZ; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:45:29 -0500 Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:59:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Doug Evans Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, Thiago Jung Bauermann , Craig Miller Subject: Re: catch-throw conditions? Message-ID: <20080222174529.GA3518@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Doug Evans , gdb@sourceware.org, Thiago Jung Bauermann , Craig Miller References: <19143cfb0802211124k275f8f7bi765154764f42ba0@mail.gmail.com> <1203686717.9433.100.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080222141940.GA23687@caradoc.them.org> <20080222142446.GA24125@caradoc.them.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-12-11) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-02/txt/msg00190.txt.bz2 On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:36:50AM -0800, Doug Evans wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 6:24 AM, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:19:40AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > "help catch", unfortunately, is incorrect :-( > > > > > > IIRC this was implemented for HP aCC. The GNU support does not (yet) > > > handle an exceptname. > > > > ... But if someone is interested, this would not be a huge project. > > Ada already supports something similar. > > Ok if I add something like the following to the ProjectIdeas page? > [what are the rules for editing the wiki btw?] There aren't any. Far as I'm concerned you can add anything you want :-) Another useful thing would be to display the exception and to automatically show the frame with the throw/catch. I think Ada does those, too. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery