Visual C/C++ 6.0. Using SEH

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microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:38:02 -0700
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<4B81B8C8-401A-45F4-80CD-DAC0700624A6@microsoft.com>
I'm facing a problem in using SEH (structured exceptions handling) in VC 6.0.
Please, create (using Visual C/C++ 6.0) an Empty Console application. Use
following source to build the application:

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class A
{
public:
    operator const __int64() const
    {
        return 33i64; // random number
    }

};

inline bool operator!=(const A& val1, const __int64& val2)
{
    return false; // doesnt matter what it returns
}

static A g_a;

bool func()
{
    __try
    {
        return (g_a != 0i64);
    }
    __finally
    {
    }
    return 0;
}

void main(void)
{
    // Check the returned value
    bool bRetVal = func();

} // Place a breakpoint here and check the value of bRetVal

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Run the application and check the value returned by func(). In my case it is
24, but it should be false <zero>. Actually (after number of tests) I found
that it is a random number.

Can somebody, please, explain what is going on?
This code should be working, or I should get a compiler error.
I'm not looking for workaround. I just want to understand - am I wrong, or
there is something with the compiler. Thank you !!!
* I've tried the same source using VC 2003 and it works fine.

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