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

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-01 17:06:23

Roland Schwarz <roland.schwarz_at_[hidden]> writes:

>>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.
>>
> I hope you didn't see this as beeing offensive.

No harm, no foul.

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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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