Breaking at a throw statement

[DavidPfander-UniStuttgart]

It seems that I can't get a meaningful stack trace for my hpx application, even in the case of a trivial throw. I constructed a minimal example that throws a string:

#include <iostream>

#include <hpx/hpx_init.hpp>
#include <hpx/hpx_start.hpp>
#include <hpx/include/iostreams.hpp>

int hpx_main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
		throw "fdjfiosjd";
		return hpx::finalize();
}

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
    // throw "fdisjfodis";
		hpx::start(argc, argv);
		hpx::stop();
    return 0;
}

and compiled it with

g++ -o unhandled_exception.o -c -std=c++14 -O0 -ffast-math -mavx2 -mfma -g -DHPX_DEBUG -DHPX_APPLICATION_EXPORTS -DHPX_ENABLE_ASSERT_HANDLER -I/home/pfandedd/hpx_install_debug/include -I/home/pfandedd/hpx_install_debug/include/hpx/external -I/home/pfandedd/Vc_install_debug/include -I/home/pfandedd/boost_1_62_0_install_debug/include unhandled_exception.cpp

When I now $ gdb unhandled_exception, (gdb) catch throw and (gdb) run I get the stacktrace found in stacktrace.txt. As you can see, it didn't break where it should have breaked.

On the other hand, the non-hpx program

#include <iostream>

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
    throw "fdisjfodis";
    std::cout << "hallo" << std::endl;
    return 0;
}

compiled with g++ -g -O0 trivial.cpp gdb breaks at the expected line with the throw statement.

How can I get a catch throw to break at the expected line with an hpx application?

[hkaiser]

The exception you're seeing is one thrown by HPX during startup for unrelated reasons. Either simply continue in gdb until you hit your exception, or - in this case - alternatively delete the component binary libhpx_sine_component.so.

Note to self: I need to finally make sure that the sine component will be loaded by the sine-performance-counter example only.

[DavidPfander-UniStuttgart]

I checked every break up to program termination, and I couldn't find my line number. (It's a lot of output, hard to be sure that it isn't there.)

Additionally, how do I not build that component?

[DavidPfander-UniStuttgart]

Update: ok, just deleted libhpx_sine*, that helped.

With only one break and a much shorter stacktrace, I also found the correct throw statement in the stacktrace.

[sithhell]

don't do "make all" or "make install", or disable the examples (-DHPX_WITH_EXAMPLES=Off).

[hkaiser]

See #2478, this should solve the issue.

[hkaiser]

#2478 has been merged, can we close this now?

[DavidPfander-UniStuttgart]

Thanks for the fix!