Re: [boost] Re: Boost debug facilities

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-04 12:10:30

At 07:58 PM 11/3/2002, David Abrahams wrote:
 >
 >Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> writes:
 >
 >> 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,
 >
 >If you're lucky enough to be running under the debugger, and to have
 >that breakpoint set, when the problem is detected, then you're home
 >free. That's a big IF.

The context Kevin gave was "When debugging", which I assumed meant running 
under the debugger. I also tend to keep most exception traps on when 
debugging, and that helps too.

But don't get me wrong, being able to replace the behavior might be a nice 
feature, if carefully thought out.

--Beman