[SPAM] - [c++-pthreads] Re: pthread_cancel and EH: let's try this again - Email found in subject

[David Abrahams]

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

> Both thread cancellation (POSIX style) and what I'll loosely call
> "asynchronous" exceptions (whether raised in a truly asynchronous
> manner or by polling for a flag that can be set by an asynchronous
> event)

Please choose different terminology.  When most of us speak of
"asynchronous" exceptions we're talking about those that can be thrown
from anywhere, including from expressions that are ordinarily not
supposed to throw.  Exceptions raised by polling are not asynchronous
by that definition, unless of course the function doing the polling
and throwing lies and claims it doesn't throw.

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Dave Abrahams
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