GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain

Disabled exceptions, new() operator still throws exception

Asked by Martin Wagner

Hi @all,

I've already had a look at this on the web and disabled exception handling as recommended (see end). However, when I call new(999999), there is still an exception thrown. In debugger "semihosting: exception 0x20023" is shown, without debugger my application just hangs.
I know that I can get around by calling new(nothrow). However, I need to know if there are other exceptions that I don't know about that are also enabled but not handled.

How do I completely disable exception handling?

Thanks,
Martin

1. toolchain version: GNU Tools for ARM Embedded Processors 6-2017-q2-update
When I take a look in the build-toolchain.sh file, "-fno-exceptions" is set for libc++ build.
2. g++ flags (those which I think might be relevant for this):
--specs=nano.specs
--specs=rdimon.specs
-ffunction-sections
-fdata-sections
-fno-rtti
-fno-exceptions
-std=c++11
-lrdimon

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#1

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Tejas Belagod (belagod-tejas) said : 		#2

Hi,

The -fno-exceptions you see is for the nano lib build - nano does not enable exceptions. You will need to do the same if you want to disable exceptions in your application code - build it with -fno-exceptions. If you don't want to use nano lib, then you will need to build your own set of libs with exceptions disabled.

Thanks,
Tejas.

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Martin Wagner (marwagner) said : 		#3

Hi,

the flag -fno-exceptions is enabled in my application build (see 2. flag list in my opening question).

regards,
Martin

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Tejas Belagod (belagod-tejas) said : 		#4

Hi,

Ah, yes sorry I missed that. Let me try to reproduce this with a small representative application and get back to you.

Thanks,
Tejas.

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