Gennaro Prota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 09:38:49 -0500, David Abrahams > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>David Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Damn, maybe I need to update more/error_handling.html >> >>Done. > > Just some notes: > > - "Don't embed a std::string object or any other data member or base > class whose copy constructor could throw an exception. That could lead > to termination during stack unwinding." > > I think you meant *before* (any) stack unwinding (unless you are > thinking to catch by value, but that's highly unlikely)
I don't actually know whether it's before or after, but it's at the stage described by 15.1/3, so I'll clarify that. > - "Similarly, it's a bad idea to use a base or member whose ordinary > constructor might throw, because, though not fatal, you will report a > different exception" > > Of course it *may* be fatal as well; it's just /not necessarily/ so. > It may not lead you straight to terminate (if you have a handler for > the different exception) but can in practice put the program in a > disastrous state. OK, I guess. In general a well-written program won't enter a disastrous state if you throw exception A instead of exception B at any given point. That's part of the reason exception-specifications aren't worth the trouble. I can change it to "though it may not be fatal" without feeling like a fraud. > Minor: > > - In section "What About Programmer Errors?" there's a little typo: > "neccessary" (two 'C's) > > - at the beginning of the paper, there's a link to 'Generic > Programming, Proc. of a Dagstuhl Seminar...' I was about to report the > error in the "date" (1766) :-) Maybe it would be better to write > "Volume 1766"? I just copied the official reference text, and never knew where that number came from. Is it really a volume number? Thanks for your remarks! -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
