Bronek Kozicki <brok@rubikon.pl> wrote:
John Maddock <john@johnmaddock.co.uk> wrote:
Well that's a good question: I'm just thinking out loud really, the options are choice or no choice, and if choice then compile-time or runtime? My gut feeling is that compile time parameterisation should be used only when there's some real benefit, and I don't see it in this case - there's no need to make everything a template :-) No
I would argue that there is *big* difference in semantics of thread execution between silently swallowing exceptions and leaking them
Oh, one more argument for different (compile-time) form of starting threads wrapped by catch(...) - it might accept (or even require) additional function (functor) being used as exception filter: void start_thread(T thread_proc, U exception_filter) { try{thread_proc();}catch(...){exception_filter();} } B.