RE: [boost] Re: Boost.Threads draft library submission

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-03-17 19:06:49

> > For fault resilient applications a typical strategy in libraries
> > is to assert during unit testing and throw an exception
> > in integration test and production.  In production the exception
> > is something like std::logic_error.  Usually a macro handles
> > the conditional compilation of the library.
>
> An application that must run 24x7 that's written in C or C++ pretty much must
> have an automatic restart mechanism for robustness in any case.  In server

Yes, but restart is often the second layer of defense not the first.
There are plenty of times when the whole application doesn't need to crash just
because of a software error.

> intervention.  With the compilers I use, exceptions make it impossible to
> generate a useful core dump that shows precisely what happened.  I'd
> rather have the core dump in the case of a logic error.

I prefer to core dump too, but again not every application can
take this approach. So, not making this an option will
exclude the use of Boost.threads (and the Boost libraries
which depend on boost threads) from those applications.
Just as a point of reference, I don't think there are any
C++ standard library implementations that take the assert
approach.

Jeff