[Haskell-cafe] C++ exception (from *.so) catchable by Haskell??

[Brandon Allbery]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Nick Rudnick <nick.rudnick at gmail.com>wrote:

> std::set_unexpected (myUnexpected);
> try {
>   throw runtime_error("OOOPS...");
> }
> catch (int) { std::cerr << "caught int\n"; }
> catch (...) { std::cerr << "caught some other exception type\n"; }
>
> still is the problem that the STDERR message of myUnexpected doesn't
> appear – is
>

You're catching all exceptions so there are no "unexpected" ones to invoke
myUnexpected on.


> there anywhere code applying what you told about?
>

I'm not sure what you're asking here. My suggestion was essentially to have
something like the try/catch you wrote for testing above wrapped around
whatever C++ code is throwing the exception, and invoke that try/catch via
the FFI.

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