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would it be possible to access a machine where the problem manifests itself? Alternatively, can someone run that test program under GDB and tell us which exception is thrown? All the best,
I will take care of that, but it may take me a few days until I find the time. I'll report back as soon as possible!
It seems to be a problem with the compiler optimizations of g++ 4.2 on alpha: The execption (::std::invalid_argument) is thrown in test11 of generalizedaffineimage3.cc as expected, but the catch clauses don't do what they should do when compiled using -O2. It's fine with -O0 and this bug seems to be solved in g++ 4.3. I'll refrain from reporting a bug against the gcc package and rather add a hack that enforces the use of 4.3 when compiling the tests.
I'm testing this hack at the moment and will upload 0.10-3 to unstable once the build succeeds.
It seems that there are also problems with exception handling in g++ 4.3, but in all cases test11 of generalizedaffineimage3 is affected (with g++ 4.3 it fails at the instance mpq_class, with 4.2 it failed with double). I will thus have the preprocessor disable this test if __alpha__ is defined.
Best, Michael