Re: [boost] [Thread] Win32 exception handling

Subject: Re: [boost] [Thread] Win32 exception handling
From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-11-28 16:30:29

on Tue Nov 25 2008, Alexander Terekhov <terekhov-AT-web.de> wrote:

> David Abrahams wrote:
> [...]
>> OK, great, a second data point.  How do you feel about the fact that the
>> upcoming standard requires the catch(...)?
>
> IMO, that's very idiotic, if true.

I think what I wrote was misleading.  I should have written that it
requires the catch(...) on any platform that doesn't automatically call
terminate() as part of the response when an exception escapes from a
thread.

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Dave Abrahams
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