Re: [boost] Re: first sight

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-01-18 07:27:06

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From: "terekhov" <terekhov_at_[hidden]>

> "> My second question is whether the C++ catch(...),
>  > which means "catch all exceptions", should be
>  > allowed to catch the pthread cancelation exception.
>  > On Tru64 Unix, catch(...) does catch pthread
>  > cancelations.
> 
>  Yes, it should; but you should always re-"throw" 
>  unless you're really sure you want to break the 
>  entire world. I think that should ALWAYS be true 
>  for an anonymous catch(...), though. If you don't 
>  know what it is, you can't "finalize" the exception 
>  recovery, and you need to just clean up your own 
>  local context and let someone else further down 
>  handle it.

Sometimes there is nobody further down, as we've seen.