On 20 March 2014 15:50, Eric Wolf wrote: > > I really think, static initializations and exceptions are the problem, > because if I placed main in a C source file and compile it with gcc, > how are the initializations done? How are uncaught exceptions handled? Using the DWARF-based exception mechanism the compiler looks up the stack for a suitable catch handler and if none is found (either because the higher stack frames are C++ functions but don't catch the exception, or because they are not C++ functions at all) then std::terminate() is called at the throw site. So I believe an uncaught exception will terminate the process irrespective of what language main() is written in. Global ctors/dtors are a separate issue, I'm not sure how they're handled if main() isn't written in C++.
