Re: exception in a device driver

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 3 Jan 1999 06:58:44 +0000 (GMT)


> I'm porting an existing device driver from WinNT to Linux.
> The device driver uses try/catch/throw extensivly.
>
> Is anything like that supported under Linux?
>
> If I use .cpp files and "try { } catch { }", then I get
> "unresolved symbol __throw" when I try to load the module.

Thats likely to get very very hairy to try and support. Getting rid of
the catch stuff for conventional error handling is probably a good move

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