wierd make issue with C++

Ok, I haven't had luck getting anyone to answer
this on comp.os.linux.development.apps, [email protected],
or [email protected], so I thought perhaps some kind soul
here might take a moment to at least try to reproduce this
problem (of course an explanation/fix/workaround would be
even better ;-)
 
In article <[email protected]>,
 Steve Hutton wrote:
> Make check succeeds (as expected) when my test program
> returns 0, but it fails (not what I expected) when the same
> test program has thrown and caught a C++ exception.

I have now distilled this down to a very simple test case,
reproducible outside of automake with a small makefile based
the make check target that automake generates.  I would very
much appreciate it if someone could take a minute to try this
and let me know if I am crazy or not ;-)

$ more Makefile
TESTS=return1 return99 return0 return0throw

all: $(TESTS)
        list='$(TESTS)'; \
        if test -n "$$list"; then \
          for tst in $$list; do \
            if ./$$tst; then \
                echo "PASS: $$tst $$?"; \
            else \
                echo "FAIL: $$tst $$?"; \
            fi; \
          done; \
        fi;

Simple test programs:

$ more return1.cpp
int main()
{
  return 1;
}

$ more return0.cpp
int main()
{
 return 0;
}

$ more return99.cpp
int main()
{
  return 99;
}

$ more return0throw.cpp
void throwSomething()
{
   throw("hello");
}

int main()
{
  try
  {
     throwSomething();
  }
  catch(...)
  {

  }
  return 0;
}

Now run make to see that it believes the last
program is returning 134(!) instead of 0:

$ make
list='return1 return99 return0 return0throw'; \
if test -n "$list"; then \
  for tst in $list; do \
    if ./$tst; then \
        echo "PASS: $tst $?"; \
    else \
        echo "FAIL: $tst $?"; \
    fi; \
  done; \
        fi;
FAIL: return1 1
FAIL: return99 99
PASS: return0 0
FAIL: return0throw 134

A similar bash script returns the results I expect:

$ test.sh
#!/bin/sh

TST=return1
echo $TST
./$TST
echo $?

TST=return0
echo $TST
./$TST
echo $?

TST=return99
echo $TST
./$TST
echo $?

TST=return0throw
echo $TST
./$TST
echo $?

$ ./test.sh
return1
1
return0
0
return99
99
return0throw
0

Thanks,
Steve




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