Re: [boost] [function] function wrapping with no exception safety guarantee

Subject: Re: [boost] [function] function wrapping with no exception safety guarantee
From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-10-12 17:39:57

David Abrahams wrote:

> Is *that* the core issue here?  Because it seems like the issue has
> been about various other things earlier in this conversation.

The core issue, if I remember correctly, is that when a library uses 
boost::function internally without ever calling it while NULL and the user 
compiles with exceptions disabled, he needs to supply a definition of 
boost::throw_exception even though it will never be called.