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Re: [3.3] Followup to C++ forced unwinding
- From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>, Nathan Myers <ncm at cantrip dot org>, Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, jason at redhat dot com
- Date: 02 May 2003 15:19:00 +0200
- Subject: Re: [3.3] Followup to C++ forced unwinding
- Organization: Integrable Solutions
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Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
[...]
| But we shouldn't go silently breaking millions of lines of until-now
| exception-safe ISO-conformant code that happens to use "catch(...)"
| rather than destructors. I'd ever so much rather debug a
| why-didn't-my-thread-go-away bug than a
| why-is-my-data-in-an-inconsistent-state bug.
strongly seconded. If we choose to map thread cancellation into
exception, then it rather obeys basic EH rules -- even though RAII is
certainly a good practice.
-- Gaby