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

From: Ben Hutchings (ben.hutchings_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-08-25 06:00:42

Peter Dimov <pdimov_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 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.

This is an known and unresolved issue:
<http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/lwg-active.html#254>