C++ exceptions causing terminate() in XML parsing

[hoelzro]

Hello everyone,

My application uses XML for some of its own configuration, so I figured I shouldn't reinvent the wheel and just use CEGUI's XML parser to do my parsing for me. So far, everything works fine and dandy, except when I throw an exception from one of XMLHandler's methods. I do this fairly often to ensure the validity of the current configuration. At runtime, the exception does not propagate to parseXMLFile(); rather, it causes terminate to be called. This only happens when using Expat or libxml, which I've noticed are non-C++ parsers. So I have a few questions:

- Does C++ treat C functions as being implicitly declared throw ()?
- What are some possible workarounds for this problem?

Thanks,
Rob Hoelz

EDIT: I've only been able to duplicate this on Mac OSX, version 10.5.5.

[CrazyEddie]

Hi,

This report pretty much confirms an issue reported by someone else, so thanks for this as it saves me some aggro with testing and what have you

Original issue report: http://www.cegui.org.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3763
Mantis ticket: http://www.cegui.org.uk/mantis/view.php?id=254

I'm not sure about work-arounds / fixes at the moment, though one idea I had was basically to compile the C based parser dependency libs as C++ (actually probably just enabling exceptions would do the trick).

I'll get to fixing this shortly with any luck, but in the mean time if you come up with any pertinent info (especially as regards to exceptions passing through C funcs) please do post it here or on the mantis ticket

CE.