Re: [boost] boost::exception questions

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-08 14:18:37

Felipe Magno de Almeida:

> On 10/6/07, Peter Dimov <pdimov_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> Tobias Schwinger:
>
> [snip]
>
>> Now that I think of it, a custom allocator won't help much either, as 
>> you'd
>> need to pass it down to every low-level component that is throwing
>> exceptions.
>
> Not if the allocator is created in the low-level code and transported
> as the stack unwinding happens, as I tried to explain in another
> thread.

The low-level code generally has no idea what allocator it needs to create.