[boost] Re: Misc library documentation issues

From: Reid Sweatman (reids_at_[hidden])
Date: 1999-07-13 12:41:47

> > Ah.  I hadn't realized we were talking specifically about 
> reference-counted
> > objects.  I thought it was a statement about the behavior 
> of bad_alloc in
> > general that I'd never heard of.  Never mind.
> 
> Actually bad_alloc has about as much behaviour as int. That 
> is to say that it's a value with no behaviour at all.

I think you replied to two different posters' messages here at once, but
I'll just respond to my part.  Yes, that's the impression I had of
bad_alloc.  It was just sounding like someone was claiming that it had odd
effects on nested DTOR's when thrown.

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