<html lang="en"> <head> <title>Exception handling - Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="up" href="C_002b_002b-Implementation.html#C_002b_002b-Implementation" title="C++ Implementation"> <link rel="prev" href="Conditionally_002dsupported-behavior.html#Conditionally_002dsupported-behavior" title="Conditionally-supported behavior"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <!-- Copyright (C) 1988-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with the Invariant Sections being ``Funding Free Software'', the Front-Cover Texts being (a) (see below), and with the Back-Cover Texts being (b) (see below). A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''. (a) The FSF's Front-Cover Text is: A GNU Manual (b) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: You have freedom to copy and modify this GNU Manual, like GNU software. Copies published by the Free Software Foundation raise funds for GNU development.--> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <a name="Exception-handling"></a> <p> Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Conditionally_002dsupported-behavior.html#Conditionally_002dsupported-behavior">Conditionally-supported behavior</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="C_002b_002b-Implementation.html#C_002b_002b-Implementation">C++ Implementation</a> <hr> </div> <h3 class="section">5.2 Exception Handling</h3> <ul> <li><cite>In the situation where no matching handler is found, it is implementation-defined whether or not the stack is unwound before std::terminate() is called (C++98 15.5.1).</cite> <p>The stack is not unwound before std::terminate is called. </ul> <!-- Copyright (C) 1988-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. --> <!-- This is part of the GCC manual. --> <!-- For copying conditions, see the file gcc.texi. --> </body></html>