Re: [Boost-users] Catching boost::thread_interrupted

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Catching boost::thread_interrupted
From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-09-08 15:50:31

Dr. Roland Bock:

>> Boost does not use __attribute__ ((visibility("default"))), therefore 
>> typeinfo for exceptions is not exported and you can't catch exceptions 
>> thrown by boost.
>
> Please forgive me if this is a stupid question:
>
> Is that a bug or a feature? Wouldn't it be good to be able to catch 
> exceptions thrown by boost?

I'm not sure I understand. Have you built Boost with an 
additional -fvisibility-hidden parameter? If you didn't, the default 
visibility should be the appropriately named "default", should it not? What 
effect would __attribute__ ((visibility("default"))) then have?