Re: Can we get line which caused an unhandled exception

From:
James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 20 May 2009 00:44:08 -0700 (PDT)
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On May 19, 5:22 pm, Angus <anguscom...@gmail.com> wrote:

The exception that is being raised in one of my applications I
can only catch by the unhlandled exception handler. But many
functions could have caused this exception. Just knowing I
have an unhandled excpetion doesn't help with debugging. I
would ideally like to get the line and file causing the
exception? Is this possible? How can I get more information
so I can sned to log?


It depends on the implementation. If you have an unhandled
exception, and you've not installed any handlers yourself, the
program should core dump (or its moral equivalent under your
system). Depending on the implementation, the stack may or may
not have been unwound---from a quality of implementation point
of view, if technically feasable, I would expect it not to have
been unwound. In which case, a debugger should reveal where the
exception was thrown.

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