Re: [boost] Policy proposal: All user-visible exceptions should be thrown through BOOST_THROW_EXCEPTION

Subject: Re: [boost] Policy proposal: All user-visible exceptions should be thrown through BOOST_THROW_EXCEPTION
From: Brian Wood (woodbrian77_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-06-26 13:24:15

Pete Bartlett:

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> Cons for 1) and 2):
> - Always paying for the cost of #including <boost/throw_exception.hpp>
> - All libraries are dependent on - and therefore become vulnerable to any
> future breakages (if any) in - Boost.Exception.

Is there a penalty for single threaded applications here?  There's
been discussion of the support for transferring exceptions between
threads; are there aspects of that support that are unneeded in a
single threaded context?

Shalom,
Brian Wood
Ebenezer Enterprises
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