Re: [boost] Operating System API Error Reporting Guidelines

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-21 11:05:43

Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Peter Dimov wrote:
>
>> 1. system_error 'obviously' needs to derive from std::exception, but whether 
>> it needs to derive from std::runtime_error isn't clear.
>
> Hum... I assumed that a system_error was 'obviously' a runtime error, 
> and thus should be derived from std::runtime_error. What am I missing?

std::runtime_error loses meaning pretty quickly when you look at it
closely, since everything reported by an exception is a runtime error,
by definition :)

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