[Boost-users] Re: Guidelines for effective exception usage

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-08-24 18:41:38

"Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Victor A. Wagner Jr. wrote:
>> OK, blunt point.
>> the standard is (insert favorite expletive or "in error") if it
>> allows use of std::runtime_error to terminate the program due to low
>> memory situations (run out of memory (due to copying) during stack
>> unwinding).
>
> It does not allow such a thing.

No?  It seemed to me that it does, for perversely low QOI
implementations.

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