libstdc++/10093: Regression: Setting failbit in exceptions doesn't work

Martin Sebor sebor@roguewave.com
Wed Apr 2 21:09:00 GMT 2003


Jerry Quinn wrote:
> Where are we on this issue?  I'm happy to fix up the code to work the
> way people want it, but there should be agreement on the desired
> behavior.  I'm a bit lost on what the consensus is for exception
> handling behavior.

I'm not sure where "we" are :) The only debatable point I recall
was about catching all exceptions or some. The standard says to
catch only those from streambuf members. I feel that all should
be caught. I think Petur agreed. Was there anything else?

Martin



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