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Re:You’re better off using Exceptions by nemetroid on Monday February 03, 2020 @06:13PM (#22230428)
> My reaction to 'the test fails because map::at threw an exception': stupid STL!!

> A core dump would be so much easier to analyze..

Uncaught exceptions call terminate(), which by default calls abort(), which generates a core dump. So if you want a core dump, just avoid catching the exception.

Re:You’re better off using Exceptions by renox on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @04:57AM (#22233946)
Except that I didn't put all these "catch".. But you're right, that's what should be done (or at least, rethrowing the exception from the catch block).