Re: [boost] [Release 1.34] Supported Compilers - another view

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-01 08:58:11

Thomas Witt <witt_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> "Robert Ramey" <ramey_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
>>> I practice I fire up my debugger on any failed
>>> test and set my VC debugger to trap on any exception - this
>>> works great for me.
>> 
>> IIRC, you only get to see the program state after the program has
>> unwound to the exception handler in the test library.  That's too
>> late.
>> 
>
> FWIW VC supports breaking on throw. I.e. you'll see the program state 
> before any stack unwinding happened. IIRC this can be controllled on a 
> exception type basis.

Yes, that works great if you happen to be running under the debugger.
Sometimes a test crash is the result of difficult-to-reproduce
conditions, and if you lose your opportunity to JIT it, the game is
up.

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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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