[geos-devel] Exception Issues

[Martin Davis]

Thanks for the succinct summary, Dave.  I took a look at the bug report, but it makes my brain hurt wading thru all that stuff.

Sigh...  I guess we better start thinking about how to remap exceptions in GEOS into something non-offensive.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Blasby [mailto:dblasby at refractions.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 9:10 AM
> To: GEOS Development List
> Subject: Re: [geos-devel] Exception Issues
> 
> 
> I'm not 100% sure of the exact nature of the problem, but 
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37933
> has some more technical details.
> 
> To summarize the article, the problem is not with the C++ exception 
> mechanism; it works just fine if you link your program to 
> libc++.  The 
> problem is when you link the main program to libc (which doesnt 
> understand c++ exception handling).  When the c++ code throws and 
> exception that has to unwind the stack (ie. leave the function that 
> threw it) a problem occurs because the default unwind mechinism in
> libc is SIGABRT (terminate the program).
> 
> If the same program were linked to libc++, then the default unwind 
> mechanism would handle the exception properly.
> 
> Anyways, read the article and see if my summary is accurate.
> 
> This isnt an issue in most program - a C program that is 
> using libgeos 
> would link it in at compile time.  This will cause it to link 
> to libc++ 
> not libc.
> 
> In postgresql, it is compiled and linked to libc.  When it 
> want to load 
> in postgis, it just openes up the .so at runtime (not compile time).
> 
> dave
> 
> 
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