Dmitry Goncharov <dgoncharov <at> unison.com> writes:
Your f1() and f2() are callback function. If such a callback function throws an exception the program should be terminated, since the os cannot handle the exception for you. That's reasonable to embrace callbacks like f1() with a catch all block and deal with the exception the way you want. E.g. void f1() { try { throw 1; } catch(...) {abort();} // Here is your core dump. }
If everybody did that there would be no need for boost::thread to provide the catch all block.
If everybody did that then everybody would lose their stack info and won't know where the unexpected exception occurred. Unfortunatelly where this doesn't happen the try-catch(...)-terminate() is a better option, but where this does happen then it is not. So I guess a macro flag or bool flag whould be good, or directly relying on the programer to put the try-catch(...) inside the callback if needed.