29 May
2004
29 May
'04
1:23 a.m.
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Abrahams" <dave@boost-consulting.com>
eegg@comcast.net writes:
1. Some platforms pose non-C++ exceptions as normal C++ exception. You don't always want those platfrom specific exceptions trigger a whole bunch of stuff in your program.
The only platform I know of that does that is Windows/MSVC
It makes it pretty common, doesn't it. :)
And there are other such platforms. The details escape me at the moment.
The details escape me too but I've heard something SEH related in HP Tru64 UNIX. Eugene