pthread_cancel and EH: let's try this again

Alexander Terekhov terekhov at web.de
Mon Jul 18 23:20:38 UTC 2005


Nathan Myers wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 12:38:01AM +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> > Nathan Myers <ncm at cantrip.org> writes:
> > |
> > | To have cancellation exceptions come from C functions breaks all code
> > | that was written assuming C functions don't throw: i.e., all existing
> > | C++ code that calls C functions.
> >
> > This is clear exaggeration.
> 
> Is there some large body of code written under the assumption that
> C functions *do* throw C++ exceptions?  I don't know of any.

Contact Hillel Y. Sims. 

Ok, ok, http://groups.google.com/groups?q=CANCEL_GUARD

regards,
alexander.




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