10 Feb
2004
10 Feb
'04
12:53 a.m.
David Abrahams wrote:
Is everyone convinced that propagating the exception into the joining thread is the right behavior or even semantically sensible?
I'm not. For me exceptions are conceptually associated with call stacks. While I can see a generalization of this concept to be valid in environments such as CORBA where a simulation of a synchronous call graph is provided, I think the situation in multi-threaded environments is quite different. If someone wants to use multi-threading and make it look as a single call stack from the outside, he can always add translators that add exception marshalling on a higher level. I don't think a low level generic threading library should care about that. Regards, Stefan