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| -rw-r--r-- | release_docs/RELEASE.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index db117e1..b31d696 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -183,7 +183,14 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.10 C++ API ------ - - None + - An exception thrown by an internal function was not propagating to the + test program during stack unwinding, so it couldn't be caught by the + test and the program terminated "without an active exception." It seemed + that the problem happened when c_str() was used to generate an equivalant + const char* from a std::string and the resulting string was passed to + the internal function. As a work-around, we added a try/catch around + the the call to the internal function and when the exception is caught there, + it is re-thrown. High-Level APIs: ------ |