Re: catch(...) and forced unwind

[Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>]

Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:

| > There's still the question of what to do with pthread_exit.
| 
| The consistent thing would seem to be to have it throw
| "posix::thread_exit".  (This, by the way, is analagous to the Python
| idea that "return" statements are equivalent to throwing a special kind
| of exception.)

Yeah, that might be fine for Python and other languages like ML that
use exceptions to return value.  But, I would strongly recommend
against introducing that slippery slope in C++, C++ libraries.

-- Gaby