Re: Initialize by throwing an exception?

[Martin Sebor]

Eric Lemings wrote:

tests/containers/23.vector.cons.cpp:

...
685 #ifndef _RWSTD_NO_EXCEPTIONS
686
687     try {
688         // throw an exception to initialize the lib (allocates
689         // memory that's never deallocated; shows up as leaks)
690         _RW::__rw_throw (_RWSTD_ERROR_LOGIC_ERROR, "", "");
691     }
692     catch (...) {
693     }
694
695 #endif   // _RWSTD_NO_EXCEPTIONS
...

This seems very odd.  Initializing the library by throwing an exception.
Or is this meant only to initialize the exception handling portions of
the library?

The latter. I suspect this might be a white box test for the
old (pre-3.0) version of the library. The new library shouldn't
leak anything. Feel free to remove this bit after verifying my
hypothesis :)

Martin