Re: [boost] [Release 1.34] Supported Compilers - another view

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-01-31 17:13:38

David Abrahams wrote:
> "Robert Ramey" <ramey_at_[hidden]> writes:

>> I practice I fire up my debugger on any failed
>> test and set my VC debugger to trap on any exception - this
>> works great for me.
>
> IIRC, you only get to see the program state after the program has
> unwound to the exception handler in the test library.  That's too
> late.

on my current vc 7.1 system (and  I think is always been this way)
I can invoke menu item debug/exceptions and get a dialog
which permits me to select a setting which breaks into the
debugger when an exception is thrown - works great for me.

Robert Ramey