Re: like to know why it is segmentation fault on simple throw-exception program

From:
red floyd <redfloyd@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 2 Jun 2011 11:20:12 -0700 (PDT)
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On Jun 1, 3:44 pm, Ian Collins <ian-n...@hotmail.com> wrote:

On 06/ 2/11 10:34 AM, Victor Bazarov wrote:

On 6/1/2011 6:16 PM, Ian Collins wrote:

On 06/ 2/11 10:01 AM, eric wrote:

Dear comp.lang.c++ reader or advced c++ programers:

I copied a piece of code from page 397 of book (Practical C++
programming), example22-1, stack_e1.cpp
about Throwing an Exception.
after a little modification, it successfully compile on my gnu/g++/
ubuntuLinux system
but when i run it, it response
Segmentation fault


Without digging too deep, this will get you in a whole heap of trouble=

:

const int STACK_SIZE = 100; // Maximum size of a stack

..

int data[STACK_SIZE]; // The items themselves
..

for (i=0; i< 5000; i++) {
test_stack.push(i);

How big is data? How many items do you push?


The whole point of the exercise was to catch the "exceptional" situatio=

n

in which _too much_ is pushed. I am guessing you *did* need to dig a
bit deeper (using your words). See the original post again and try
paying attention this time. :*)


OK, I dug:

inline void stack::push(const int item) throw(bound_err)
{
     if ((count < 0) &&
            (count >= sizeof(data)/sizeof(data[0]))) {
        throw("Push overflows stack");
     }
     data[count] = item;
     ++count;

}

Nothing will be thrown since count can't be negative and >= STACK_SIZE!


And even if it did, wouldn't it call unexpected(), since it throws a
char const*
instead of a bound_err?

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