[boost] Re: future of boost.threads

From: Christopher Currie (christopher_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-05 14:30:28

Slawomir Lisznianski wrote:
> Are there any plans to support handling of exceptions thrown during
> joinable thread execution? I recall Usenet discussions with proposals
> varying from Futures to throwable join():
> 
> try {
>   thread.join();
> }
> catch (std::runtime_error& e) {
>   ...
> }
> 
> Any ideas?

Doesn't this require a certain amount of compiler support? IIRC, some 
compilers don't support throwing exceptions across thread boundaries...