Re: first sight

From: terekhov (terekhov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-01-18 07:47:39

--- In boost_at_y..., "David Abrahams" <david.abrahams_at_r...> wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "terekhov" <terekhov_at_d...>
> 
> > "> 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.

And process terminates and that is GOOD.

regards,
alexander.