Re: [boost] Operating System API Error Reporting Guidelines

From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-17 16:42:44

Beman Dawes wrote:

> Do other Boosters like the idea of an overall guideline for dealing with 
> operating system API error reporting?

Sure.

> Do the specific guidelines make sense? How can they be improved?

What about system calls that fail in a constructor? Providing a no-throw 
constructor that could leave an object in an invalid state can make it 
much more difficult to reason about program correctness. What is the 
recommendation in this case?

Some people may want to make the exception-throwing versions unavailable 
to guarantee they don't accidentally call one. There should be a 
recommended way of doing that (eg., a standard PP macro).

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Eric Niebler
Boost Consulting
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