[boost] Re: exception context

From: Gennaro Prota (gennaro_prota_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-03-21 13:51:14

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 10:06:45 -0700, Greg Colvin
<gregory.colvin_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>The idea of the why() member was to preserve context when one exception
>gets caught and a different one gets thrown, so you could walk back the
>chain of why()'s asking what() and where().  I bring it up just as a
>design that might be worth resurrecting if it meets your needs.

Do you have pointers to the old std::exception specification, with
where() and why() members?

PS: I declare myself out of this vague discussion. Just curious about
those ones :-)

Genny.