Minor exception bug with unexpected

Alexandre Oliva oliva@dcc.unicamp.br
Thu Mar 19 07:34:00 GMT 1998


ak  writes:

> The appended example dumps core in __check_eh_spec. Although that
> is legal in CD2 [except.special says "The unexpected() function shall 
> not return"], it is still not very nice to the user. The patch 
> makes unexpected() call terminate() in this case.

I'd rather call abort() instead of terminate().  Calling terminate()
might cause yet more unexpected results (unavoidable pun, sorry :-)

-- 
Alexandre Oliva
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