Will C++ exceptions safely propagate through C code?

Question

I have a C++ application that calls SQLite\'s (SQLite is in C) sqlite3_exec() which in turn can call my callback function implemented in C++. SQLite is compiled into a stati

Answer 1

If your callback called from sqlite is from the same thread from which you called sqlite3_exec() a throw somewhere in the callstack should be caught by a higher level catch.

Testing this yourself should be straightforward, no?

[edit] After digging a little more myself I found out that the C++ standard is somewhat vague on what the behavior a c++ function called from c should have when throwing an exception.

You should definitely use the error handling mechanism the API expects. Otherwise you'll mostly the API itself in an undefined state and any further calls could potentially fail/crash.