Re: [boost] Re: future of boost.threads

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-09 16:04:40

On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 14:55:39 -0500, Stefan Seefeld wrote
> Glen Knowles wrote: 
> > If it is not a recognized corba exception what the ACE TAO does is eat 
> > it with a catch(...) and then throws a corba system exception on the 
> > other side.
> 
> yes, so all exceptions that are allowed to pass have to be 
> explicitely declared as such. If it is not declared, a special 
> standard exception will be thrown (or may be something equivalent to 
> 'unexpected'). 

The object request broker throws CORBA::Unknown if it catches an exception 
not in the interface specification.  

BTW, I like the idea someone else suggested of using a typelist to specify 
known exception types.... 

Jeff