Can't catch exception in Release mode

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Hi,

I cant catch any exception in Release mode of my program. But debug mode is working fine w/o any problem. I am using VS 2008 as my IDE.

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
    try
    {
        printf("About to try\n");
        int j,i=20;
        j=i/0;
        *(char *)j = 0000;
        printf("Try done\n");
    }
    catch(...)
    {
        printf("Caught Exception\n");
    }
    printf("Waiting to stop\n");
    Sleep(5000);
    return 0;
}

Posted 22-Feb-10 6:10am

devprash

Updated 22-Feb-10 7:52am

Jimmanuel

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Nemanja Trifunovic · Answer 1 · 2010-02-22T08:12:00

Solution 1

Divison by zero or accessing an invalid pointer do not result in C++ exceptions. You may want to look at Structured Exception Handling[^]

Posted 22-Feb-10 8:12am

Nemanja Trifunovic

Graham Breach · Answer 2 · 2010-02-22T08:17:00

Solution 2

The problem is that divide by zero doesn't cause a C++ exception to be thrown. If you really want to catch that kind of error you could use Structured Exception Handling[^] instead (or in addition to C++ exception handling).

Posted 22-Feb-10 8:17am

Graham Breach

devprash · Answer 3 · 2010-02-23T05:57:00

Thanks for reply Nemanja Trifunovic , Graham Breach.

I found another compiler option which may be helpful in such cases. ie C++ exception handling with structured exception handling exceptions.

<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1deeycx5%28VS.80%29.aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1deeycx5%28VS.80%29.aspx</a>[<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1deeycx5%28VS.80%29.aspx" target="_blank" title="New Window">^</a>]