[boost] Re: future of boost.threads (implementation)

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-12 08:10:07

Sam Partington <Sam.Partington_at_[hidden]> writes:

> On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 13:26:27 -0600, Brock Peabody
> <brock.peabody_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> Just to prove to myself that I could do it I implemented a rough
>> version of
>> what I was talking about.  I think the interface is pretty easy to use.
>>
>>    exception_transporter.h - non thread related tool for transporting
>>       exceptions in a typelist.  Could be used for other areas where
>>       exceptions    propagation is an issue.  Returns exceptions in a
>>       variant so the user can    inspect or throw them.
>>
>>    thread_with_exceptions.h - used like:
>>
>>       thread_with_exceptions<exception_type_list, return_type>
>>          t(thread_function);
>>
>>
>>          //may propagate an exception from the list
>>       return_type rval = t.join();
>>
>>    main.cpp - implements a small example.
>>
>> Does this seem like a reasonable approximation of what people have been
>> asking for?
>
> All looks fine to me, but without meaning to sound rude, what does it
> give you over the implementation I posted two days ago?

And what about the one Daniel Wallin posted, which doesn't require
all exceptions to be registered in one big compile-time list?

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Dave Abrahams
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