RE: [boost] Automatic Win32 regression test crashes

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-01-15 17:57:49

At 04:52 PM 1/15/2002, Jason Shirk wrote:

 >We consider catching AV's w/ catch(...) a bug and are considering
 >changing the behavior in the future (perhaps w/ a switch and warnings.)
 >
 >There are other options.  When we run our regression tests, we call:
 >
 >	SetErrorMode(SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX);
 >
 >Note this is not recommended unless you are actually running the process
 >as a debugger, at least according to the SDK documentation.  It seems to
 >work for our purposes.
 >
 >Another possibility is to use the API SetUnhandledExceptionFilter.
 >There is an excellent article on MSDN that demonstrates some fun things
 >you can do with this, see:
 >
 >http://www.microsoft.com/msj/defaultframe.asp?page=/msj/0497/hood/hood04
 >97.htm&nav=/msj/0497/newnav.htm

The new version on Boost.Test actually does pretty well handling Win32 
structured exceptions (plus C++ exceptions), so we are OK for VC++ and 
other compilers which support that mechanism.  I'd forgotten about that 
'til Ed Brey mentioned it.

By the way, I'll add VC++ to the Win32 compiler mix as soon as I get an 
release copy.  Haven't gotten an upgrade offer yet.

--Beman