[CLN-list] Overriding read_number_bad_syntax on OS X

[David Fang]

> Ron Garret wrote:
> > On May 14, 2007, at 12:39 PM, Ron Garret wrote:
> >> First, I would like to correct an earlier claim: I thought that -
> >> fno-exceptions was the default configuration, but it's not.  When I
> >> specify -fno-exceptions and try to use a callback that throws an
> >> exception I get a bus error.
> >
> > Meta-correction: it's an "abort trap", not a bus error.
>
> What's that? Sounds like an unhandled exception to me.

That's exactly what happens with uncaught exceptions (the throw `escaped'
all the way out of the run-time).  Not sure if every system reports it as
an abort trap, but at least OS X does.

Fang