Re: Exception Specifications

On May 2, 3:43 pm, Keith Halligan <keith.halli...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I'm a bit unsure about the following behaviour with exception
> specifiers in C++ functions
>
> Here's some sample code:
>
> #include <exception>
>
> class Sy***ception { };
>
> void f( ) throw (Sy***ception)
> {
>     throw std::exception();
> }
>

If you 'try' f(), then you can't 'catch' the std::exception.
I think such constructs should be warned by the compilers but my
gcc is happy with this stuff.

Maybe,

void f() throw (Sy***ception, std::exception)
{ throw std::exception(); }

is what you needed.

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