[CMake] ExceptionHandling in VC8

[Brad King]

Laurentiu Nicolae wrote:
> Hello CMake users,
> 
> I have noticed that the ExceptionHandling flag is not fully handled for
> VC8 projects. Namely, in VC7 this option could only be set to TRUE or
> FALSE. In VC8, we have the following options:
> 
> Enable C++ exceptions :
> No -  ExceptionHandling="0" 
> Yes (/EHsc) - ExceptionHandling="1"
> Yes with SEH Exceptions (/EHa) -  ExceptionHandling="2"
> 
> The /EHa option is not handled by the generator and ends up in the
> AdditionalOptions line. This results for us in a warning (/EHsc replaced
> with /EHa) for every file we compile in our projects. It would be nice
> to have this option fully supported by CMake, especially since VC8 seems
> to become  the new IDE of choice for Windows C++ development.

There is a table in the generator used to map command line options to 
GUI settings in the generated project files.  The /EHa option is missing 
from this table.  You can submit a bug report here:

http://www.cmake.org/Bug

-Brad