Exception Handling Question!? Dev-C++4

[Nobody/Anonymous]

Hello forum,

I've tried this Code:

//...
try
{
    //somewhat happens
    if(somewhat has happened)   throw "somewhat";

}
catch(char  *str)
{
   printf("%s has happened!!", str);
}
catch(...)
{
   printf("Exeption not of type char*  !!");
}

The strange thing is, that    catch(char *str)   is not executed, but catch(...).

If i would have written:

//...
char *ThrowStr = "TextTextText";
throw ThrowStr;
//...

, then       catch(char *str)    would have been tested.

In some Tutorials they write only the first syntax.

But why doesn't it work on my Dev-C++4 ???

Thanks , Tom.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

Without doing any testing I'm going to have a stab and say that a string like "somewhat" is not a char * but it is a const char * and therefore is not caught by your catch(char *) statement.

Try it with catch (const char*) and let me know.

BlakJak :]

[Nobody/Anonymous]

Thanks, BlakJak  ;]

It really works!

Tom 8)