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Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost::thread and Dr. Watson
From: Anthony Williams (anthony.ajw_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-12-18 11:00:51

Francesco Nesci <french_at_[hidden]> writes:

> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

Please don't post HTML-only emails.

> Sometimes our
> program just vanishes without invoking the
> postmortem debugger (usually Dr. Watson). I tracked it down to boost::thread using a catch(&#8230;) that calls
> std::terminate() as part of a try/catch block around the thread
> procedure. This means that when there&#8217;s an unhandled C++ or structured
> exception the application quietly shuts down.

That catch block has been removed from Boost.Thread on trunk.

I suggest you remove it from your local copy and rebuild.

Anthony 

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