Not executing CPP_FAIL inside a catch block.

[Geoff Drake]

Hi
Here is an example of my problem.  I am running thhis inside Eclispe 2.1.1 using the CPPUnit Plugin.  If I comment ou the call o throwException() I get the expected CPP_FAIL.  If I catch the exception it does not execute the CPP_FAIL, but uses a generic catch.  Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?

#include <iostream>

#include "cppunit/Test.h"
#include "cppunit/extensions/HelperMacros.h"
using namespace std;

class SimpleException
{
    private:
        char*message;
       
    public:
        SimpleException(char *msg)
        {
            message = msg;
        }
       
        char *getMessage()
        {
            return message;
        }
};

class CrashTest: public CppUnit::TestFixture {

private:

        void throwException()
        {
            throw new SimpleException("Hey an exception");
        }
       
public:

    void setUp()
    {
    }
   
    void tearDown()
    {
    }
   
    void testOne ()
    {
        try
        {
            // If throwException is commented out I get "Should have thrown..."
            // If left in I get "Message:caught unknown exception" not ex.getMessage()
            throwException();
            CPPUNIT_FAIL("Should have thrown an Exception before here");
        }
        catch (SimpleException ex)
        {
            CPPUNIT_FAIL(ex.getMessage());
        }
    }
   
   
    CPPUNIT_TEST_SUITE(CrashTest);
    CPPUNIT_TEST(testOne);
    CPPUNIT_TEST_SUITE_END();
   
   
};
CPPUNIT_TEST_SUITE_REGISTRATION(CrashTest);

[Hisakuni Kitahara]

You throw an exception as pointer type of SimpleException,
so you shoud code catch block as follow

catch (SimpleException *ex)
{
     CPPUNIT_FAIL(ex->getMessage());
}

Or throw

throw SimpleException("Hey an exception");

Rigards,
Hisakuni