[boost] Re: [serialization] exception in destructor

8 Apr 2005


      Vyacheslav E. Andrejev wrote:
...
Hello Robert,
I spent a lot of time trying to understand where my program failed.
Finally, I found that the cause was in destructor of
basic_xml_oarchive class:
template<class Archive>
#if !defined(__BORLANDC__)
BOOST_DECL_ARCHIVE_OR_WARCHIVE
#endif
basic_xml_oarchive<Archive>::~basic_xml_oarchive(){
    if(!header)
        return;
    this->This()->put("</boost_serialization>\n");
}
basic_text_oprimitive::put(const char * s) can throw an exception,
causing unexpected termination of program when stack unwind. I heard
many times that uncaught exception in destructor is not very good
thing. Should we consider refactoring of this point in
basic_xml_oarchive?
Regards.
Slava.
Good Point

Robert Ramey