[boost] Re: Boost debug facilities

From: Alisdair Meredith (alisdair.meredith_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-04 04:20:21

Darin Adler wrote:

> In the programming environments I use, the debugger allows me to either
> trap all exceptions at the point they are thrown, or none at all. I
> don't know of any environment that lets you express which exceptions
> are expected and which are not.

Borland lets you ignore specific exception-classes being thrown [i.e.
ignore all std::runtime_error] and this is an exact match, so subclasses
will still invoke the debugger.  You can't ignore a specific
throw-statement though, and I can see that might be useful.

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AlisdairM
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