Consider this code (badcast.cpp):
#include <exception>
#include <typeinfo>
#include <stdio.h>
class foo {
public:
virtual ~foo() {}
};
class bar: public foo {
public:
int val;
bar(): val(123) {}
};
static void
cast_test(const foo &f) {
try {
const bar &b = dynamic_cast<const bar &>(f);
printf("%d\n", b.val);
} catch (const std::bad_cast &) {
printf("bad cast\n");
}
}
int main() {
foo f;
cast_test(f);
return 0;
}
FreeBSD 9.1:
$ g++ badcast.cpp -o badcast -Wall && ./badcast
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_cast'
what(): std::bad_cast
Abort trap (core dumped)
$ g++ badcast.cpp -o badcast -frtti -fexceptions -Wall && ./badcast
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_cast'
what(): std::bad_cast
Abort trap (core dumped)
$ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: amd64-undermydesk-freebsd
Configured with: FreeBSD/amd64 system compiler
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.2.1 20070831 patched [FreeBSD]
$ uname -a
FreeBSD freebsd9 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r243825: Tue Dec 4 09:23:10 UTC 2012 [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
Debian Linux 6:
$ g++ badcast.cpp -o badcast -Wall && ./badcast
bad cast
OS X 10.8:
$ g++ badcast.cpp -o badcast -Wall && ./badcast
bad cast
Why does catching bad_cast not work on FreeBSD?
As a wild guess, there’s a chance in FreeBSD you might be using LLVM’s new libc++
, instead of the old GNU libstdc++
. FreeBSD has been working towards switching over to the LLVM toolchain, away from GNU GPL licensed software.
Apple’s moving that way too, and in the past I’ve ran into issues developing for Mac using libc++
that libstdc++
didn’t have (especially with Boost).
You can use ldd
to confirm what libraries you’re linking against:
ldd ./badcast
If it is linking against libc++
, you might want to file the bug and test case with the LLVM project.
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