Andrey Semashev wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering why the throw_exception function is not marked as noreturn?
I don't know. That could be because not all compilers support that annotation (but then, that's not usually something which scares Boost off).
This makes it troublesome to use it as a drop-in replacement for throw statements as it starts to flag compiler warnings about missing return statements in non-void functions.
I suggest to mark the function as noreturn at least for compilers that support it. GCC has __attribute__((noreturn)), MSVC has __declspec(noreturn).
I don't know what they guys here want to do, or whether there's an accepted solution to this. For the immediate needs, however, you could use BOOST_UNREACHABLE_RETURN in the calling function. -- Genny