Re: Examing an execution, caught by "catch (...)" possible?

soeren wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm currently in progress of finding an error that seems to be in my
> system's libraries - but throws an exception at least...
> Currently I don't know what exception type this is but I'm able to
> catch it using a "catch (...)" line. Now I'd like to see what this
> exception is. Is there any way to examine this exception and find out
> what type it is?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Soeren Gerlach
> 

Most debuggers can set to break whenever an exception is thrown.  In
gdb, the magic command is "catch throw".  I would be very surprised if
Visual Studio's debugger (or any other popular debugger) didn't have
some equivalent.

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