[boost] Re: future of boost.threads

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-08 11:23:37

Christopher Currie <christopher_at_[hidden]> writes:

> 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? 

Yes.

> IIRC, some compilers don't support throwing exceptions across thread
> boundaries...

Right.  This can't be done portably.

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