[c++-pthreads] pthread_cancel and EH: let's try this again

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

"Peter Dimov" <pdimov at mmltd.net> writes:


[...]

| > 2) Are exceptions safe, in general?
| 
| We've spent the last decade in learning how to use them safely. It
| doesn't make sense to discard this knowledge.

Indeed, we don't need to prove them safe in general.  We only need to
know how to use them safely in appropriate circumstances.  Just like,
say pointers. 

I hope we won't be distracted too much :-)

-- Gaby