After upgrading to gcc test version 6.3.0-1, C++ exception handling is
broken if DLL version of new libstdc++6 is used.
Testcase:
$ uname -srvmo
CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW 2.6.1(0.305/5/3) 2016-12-16 11:50 i686 Cygwin
or:
CYGWIN_NT-10.0 2.6.1(0.305/5/3) 2016-12-16 11:55 x86_64 Cygwin
$ cygcheck -f /bin/g++
gcc-g++-6.3.0-1
$ cygcheck -f /bin/cygstdc++-6.dll
libstdc++6-6.3.0-1
$ cat exc.cc
int main()
{
try {
throw 42;
}
catch (int i) {
return i;
}
return 0;
}
$ g++ -o exc exc.cc
$ ./exc
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Workaround: Use statically linked version of new libstdc++6:
$ g++ -static -o exc-static exc.cc
$ ./exc-static
$ echo $?
42
Or: Downgrade cygstdc++6.dll:
$ cygcheck -f /bin/cygstdc++-6.dll
libstdc++6-5.4.0-1
$ ./exc
$ echo $?
42
This also affects existing packages compiled with older g++, for example:
$ /usr/sbin/smartctl -V
smartctl 6.5 2016-05-07 r4318 [x86_64-unknown-cygwin-win10] (cygwin-6.5-1)
...
smartmontools build with: C++98, GCC 5.3.0
...
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Regards,
Christian
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