[Bug c++/16897] a rethrow outside of a catch isn't flagged

[gdr at integrable-solutions dot net]

------- Additional Comments From gdr at integrable-solutions dot net  2004-08-06 15:35 -------
Subject: Re:  a rethrow outside of a catch isn't flagged

"brendan at zen dot org" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org> writes:

| Subject: Re:  a rethrow outside of a catch isn't flagged
| 
| On Friday 06 August 2004 15:22, bangerth at dealii dot org wrote:
| > Joerg's explanation is correct. 15.1/6 and /7 don't specify that
| > "throw;" has to be lexically inside a catch block. In particular,
| > 15.1/8 says that if there is no exception presently being handled,
| > then the program aborts by calling terminate().
| 
| Agreed.  However, I think by far the majority of people using rethrow aren't 
| intending to do it outside of a handler.  Thus I believe a warning would be 
| helpful to people accidentally doing

Last time we went down this road -- transforming personal mistakes
into to universals -- we get a nearly-useless -Weffc++.

-- Gaby


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