On 23/06/2014 17:19:01 +1200, Gavin Lambert wrote

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You could try submitting that as a bug report in Trac (if it's  not already there), or waiting for Gennadiy Rozental's response.

Done.  I hope I did it properly.  Never reported a bug on Boost before.  Quoted our discussion, so that some more info is available if necessary.

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In the  meantime, you'd need to write a more intelligent test yourself. 

I will do it manually.  Found someone on Stack Overflow who wanted the same behavior I expected and did it.  In case it helps someone, here is the snippet: try {     … code that should throw ...     BOOST_ERROR( “<function_name> did not throw anything. Expected a <exception_name>” ); } catch( <exception_name> const& ) {     //ok, this is the expected case } catch(…) {     BOOST_ERROR( “<function_name> has throw an unknown exception, but a <exception_name> was expected.” ); } and the reference: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21774387/boost-unit-testing-exceptions Thanks again for your help.