----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Gruenke" <mgruenke@intellivid.com> To: <boost@lists.boost.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 8:01 PM Subject: Re: [boost] [Thread] Win32 exception handling
Some compilers (certainly GCC) have the ability to preserve the stackframe from the time it was thrown (!), for uncaught exceptions. If you catch (...), then the destructors of all the locals will execute and you'll lose some information that could be instrumental in tracking down the cause of the exception.
For that reason, among others, it's good to avoid the catch/rethrow construct.
The catch (...) is one of the reasons we don't use boost::thread. I even filed a bug on it:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1274707&group_id=7586&atid=357586
When I try to open this page anerror apears. Can you post the ticket? Thanks, Vicente