Re: [boost] Re: Boost debug facilities

From: Greg Colvin (Gregory.Colvin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-04 09:07:18

So why don't we just have a replaceable handler function that can
throw or abort or whatever?

At 03:19 AM 11/4/2002, Peter Dimov wrote:
>From: "Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]>
>> At 12:48 AM 11/3/2002, Kevin S. Van Horn wrote:
>>
>>  >Throwing an exception, on the other hand, causes the stack to be
>unwound,
>>
>>  >thus throwing away all of that information.  When debugging, throwing an
>>  >exception on a logical (programmer) error is the last thing in the world
>> I
>>  >want to happen.
>>
>> Surely your debugger allows you to trap the exception at the point it is
>> thrown, so that the stack (and everything else) at that point is available
>> for inspection?  Isn't that equivalent to getting a core dump, yet
>> preserves the benefits of exceptions in non-debugging environments?
>
>No, because beta testers typically don't run your program under a debugger.
>
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