Re: [boost] [Stacktrace] review

Subject: Re: [boost] [Stacktrace] review
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-12-15 01:14:36

On 12/14/16 6:06 PM, Nat Goodspeed wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 7:53 PM, Robert Ramey <ramey_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> I think that there has been a lot of confusion about what
>> BOOST_THROW_EXCEPTION is suppose to do.
>>
>> My understanding was that it was a macro intended to support the writing of
>> portable code that could run on platforms which didn't support exceptions or
>> where the user / author didn't want to use the exception mechanism so he
>> could redefine the macro.  Lot's of libraries used this idiom to decouple
>> their libraries from the the selection of exception mechanism.
>
> I admit that my usage of BOOST_THROW_EXCEPTION is fairly recent, but
> that use case is not even mentioned:
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_62_0/libs/exception/doc/BOOST_THROW_EXCEPTION.html

Right.  Because the semantics of BOOST_THROW_EXCEPTION were changed and 
the documentation updated to the new semantics.  The history of the 
current version only goes back to 2009 so it's not visible now.

Robert Ramey