In message <20000401174807.A26425@realms.nimenees.com>erh@nimenees.com writes
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>	I just tried a c++ program that uses exceptions.
>It didn't work.  "Abort (core dumped)" as soon as an.
>exception is thrown. 

Did you compile with "c++" or just "cc"? If you compile with "cc",
then sometimes C++ code compiles but doesn't get the right startup
libraries linked in, causing htte code to die at runtime.

I tried the source code with c++ and our egcs-1.1.1, (on an otherwise
mostly 1.4.2-ish i386 system), it worked fine. 

If that's not the problem, which port and which compiler version
(uname -a, c++ -v) are you using?