Re: [Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #6700: Exceptionless lexical_cast

Subject: Re: [Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #6700: Exceptionless lexical_cast
From: Boost C++ Libraries (noreply_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-12-11 00:06:08

#6700: Exceptionless lexical_cast
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  Reporter:  Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@…>  |      Owner:  apolukhin
      Type:  Feature Requests                  |     Status:  closed
 Milestone:  To Be Determined                  |  Component:  lexical_cast
   Version:  Boost 1.48.0                      |   Severity:  Problem
Resolution:  wontfix                           |   Keywords:
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Comment (by ben.maurer@…):

 Any update on if you'd consider doing this? At Facebook we've seen many
 instances of programs that call lexical_cast in a try/catch. In cases
 where the parsing is expected to fail (eg, an argument could be an int or
 a date) we frequently see extremely poor performance in multithreading.
 GCC is known to have poor multithreaded exception handling
 gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2013-05/msg00253.html

 Facebook is currently running a bug bounty program for open source bugs,
 and this is a bug that might be worthy of such a bounty, if is something
 there is interest in merging.

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