[c++-pthreads] Re: [SPAM] - Re: [c++-pthreads] Re: FW: RE: Re: I'm Lost - Email found in subject

[Ted Baker]

> >I've been talking about the implementor-perspective. A standard will not
> >be much good unless you can also persuade the implementors to buy in.

> Nor will getting implementors on board if the final form isn't something 
> compellingly useful to developers. I have trouble believing that a C++ 
> POSIX binding that doesn't use exceptions will be accepted easily, 
> widely, or quickly.

Right.  So, the POSIX C++ API must include exceptions, but the way
in which exceptions and thread cancellation interact needs to put
most (maybe all?) of the special burden of supporting C++ onto the
implementors of the C++ compiler and the C++ binding, not
maintainers of the C binding and the C compiler.

Of course, if the C and C++ bindings happen to be done by the same
person/group, this matters less.  That may be the case with Gnu/gcc,
but it seems unwise to assume it will be the case on all platforms.

--Ted