Re: is handling of UncaughtException broken on my system?

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 20 Feb 2009, at 21:22, sylvain wrote:

> Hi,
>
> the program below does not work as I would have expected on my system.
>
> #include <Foundation/Foundation.h>
> void MyEHandler(NSException* exception)
> {
>  NSLog(@"exception: %@\n",exception);
> }
> int
> main(int argc, const char *argv[])
> {
>  id pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
>  NSSetUncaughtExceptionHandler(MyEHandler);
>  /* compare function address, is ok */
>  NSLog(@"MyEHandler: %p\n",MyEHandler);
>  NSLog(@"MyEHandler: %p\n",NSGetUncaughtExceptionHandler());
>  [NSException raise:@"crash" format:@"no reason"];
>  [pool release];
>  return 0;
> }
>
> $ ./obj/brokenexception
> 2009-02-20 22:11:14.668 brokenexception[15643] MyEHandler: 0x8048804
> 2009-02-20 22:11:14.984 brokenexception[15643] MyEHandler: 0x8048804
> Abandon
>
> I have installed GNUStep on Ubuntu. Package version: 7.2
>
> Is it a problem with me, the Ubuntu build or upstream?

The output on my system (svn trunk) is

2009-02-20 23:13:36.743 generictests[12218,986ade8] MyEHandler:  
0x80487d4
2009-02-20 23:13:36.762 generictests[12218,986ade8] MyEHandler:  
0x80487d4
2009-02-20 23:13:36.777 generictests[12218,986ade8] exception:  
<NSException: 0x98f9060> NAME:crash REASON:no reason INFO:(nil)
obj/generictests: Uncaught exception crash, reason: no reason
Aborted