On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Jonathan Stone wrote:

> 
> In message <20000401174807.A26425@realms.nimenees.com>erh@nimenees.com writes
> >
> >	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. 

It's a known binutils/i386-elf (or maybe elf on all archs?) problem.

It's on my TODO list for 1.5.

   /Krister