[boost] Re: [boost::thread] locks, exceptions and assertions

From: Daniel Frey (daniel.frey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-07-18 10:27:28

Russell Hind wrote:
> As I mentioned in another thread, we went this route and just shutdown 
> the thread that had caused the exception so that hopefully we could save 
> our data (this was on a high-throughput drugs screen system, not an 
> academic exercise :) ), but ultimately when you get to logic errors like 
> this,  that logic error could have written to wrong memory memory.  It 

Well, your use-scenario is of course reasonable and it makes perfectly 
sense to abort the process. But the point is that it's not up to the 
library to make that decision. I hope you can confirm that it was just 
the mix up of assert() and BOOST_ASSERT() that caused our disagreement. 
As I said, BOOST_ASSERT is perfectly fine for me...

Regards, Daniel

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