On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 1:11 PM, David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote:
It is necessary for conformance in many popular implementations because they have no other way to ensure a call to terminate().
Ah I get it! You mean, popular implementations of thread functionality, not the compiler itself. :)
To me that's like having an automatic catch(...) in main(). This doesn't mean that it's always a bad idea, only that the decision to use catch(...) is outside of the scope of boost::thread.
Not if Boost.Thread is trying to conform to the CD.
I'm not sure it should be trying to do that. I'd rather have it fallback to what the implementation happens to do in this situation; after all, that behavior is implementation- and os-specific and should make sense. Emil Dotchevski Reverge Studios, Inc. http://www.revergestudios.com/reblog/index.php?n=ReCode