Re: [boost] [Boost.Thread]: consider removing catch(...) from thread_proxy

From: Roland Schwarz (roland.schwarz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-01 14:56:48

David Abrahams schrieb:

>Roland Schwarz <roland.schwarz_at_[hidden]> writes:
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>>and I do not know for sure.  I would have suggested to roll
>>out a small test for the currently supported compilers, to see how big
>>the impact would be to regressions.  But as you say: "With most of the
>>compilers I use an uncaught exception thrown from a user thread will
>>terminate the application", 
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>I didn't ever say that.
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I have to apologize.

I mixed up the posters. The sentence is attributed to John Maddok:

>I think I'd come down on the other side: this isn't a minor change, it's a 
>complete change of semantics and we should be very careful about such a 
>change.  With most of the compilers I use an uncaught exception thrown from 
>a user thread will terminate the application, which may be what you want, or 
>it may not: but it sure is drastic!  You can always trap uncaught exceptions 
>yourself and call abort (or whatever) if that's what you want.  The debugger 
>I use will also let you trap all thrown exceptions if that's what you want, 
>whether they all do that I don't know.
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I hope you didn't see this as beeing offensive.

Regards,
Roland