In my current project we have some legacy mixed language code that is crashing. We isolated it to a piece of code where c function calls a c++ function which throws an exception. This crashes (I assume) because the c functions stack frame isn't setup correctly. With the microsoft compiler you can work around this with the /EH** compiler options, but does anyone know how to the same thing with gcc?

Bugger, I spend all morning trying to find an answer, post my question and then find the answer five minutes later

if anyone was interested you need to enable -fexceptions