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

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-08-25 07:04:19

Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 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

"The copy constructors of all exception-derived classes already have a no 
throw spec. Reference 18.6.1, 19.1 and 15.4/13."

>From the above link.