Re: Unknown exception occured for pthread_exit()

From:
Marco Manfredini <ok_nospam_ok@phoyd.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:23:21 +0100
Message-ID:
<4305744.uRKj8IsklW@technoboredom.net>
leelaprasad.gorrepati@gmail.com wrote:

We had written an application in which we create worker thread.

So the main thread will create the worker thread. After some time
the child thread(Worker thread) will call pthread_exit().
This function was written in try{} and there occured an and is handled
in catch(...) handler.

Can any one tell me the reason why the exception occured.


I give you a rough picture, because the posix people usually claim that
they've never heard of C++:

Some implementations of pthreads support cleanup of C++ stackframes
during cancellation. They basically throw a hidden exception back to
the routine that launched the thread procedure, thereby invoking all
destructors. catch(...) catches this exception, of course, may perform
cleanup, but must rethrow the exception, because flowing out out the
handler would mean that the cancellation is cancelled, which isn't
supported.

So for you, this is correct:
catch(...)
{
 printf("Inside catch...\n");
 throw;
}

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