thread-safety definition

[David Abrahams]

Ted Baker <baker at cs.fsu.edu> writes:

>> Except for the fact that we have normally-non-throwing functions that
>> have started to throw, I don't think anyone's disagreeing with you.
>
> This still perplexes me.  How does a "normally-non-throwing function"
> "start to throw"?

You port the code which calls the function into an environment which
changes the rules about what can throw exceptions.

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Dave Abrahams
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