Re: Clarification needed for 18.6.4: terminate() and uncaught_excaption()

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ymett <ymett.on.usenet@gmail.com>

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Wed, 8 Aug 2007 09:36:28 CST

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On Aug 8, 6:19 am, AlbertoBarb...@libero.it (Alberto Ganesh Barbati)
wrote:

Eric Niebler ha scritto:

  bool uncaught_exception() throw();

  Returns: true after completing evaluation of a
  throw-expression until either completing
  initialization of the exception-declaration in
  the matching handler or entering unexpected()
  due to the throw; or after entering terminate()
  for any reason other than an explicit call to
  terminate().

I can read this two ways:

1) Returns true after <blah> or after entering terminate() ...
2) Returns true after <blah> until either ... or after entering
terminate() ...

If I choose the second reading, the program should print "HERE". If I
choose the first, it shouldn't. What is the intention?

FWIW, I believe the intent is the first one, for two reasons:

2) with reading number 2, uncaught_exception() will never be true inside
terminate(), whether the call has been explicit or not. Checking
uncaught_exception() inside terminate() might be of some use, so why
lose such capability? Moreover, the phrase "for any reason other than an
explicit call" would be redundant.

No. uncaught_exception() will be true inside terminate() if
terminate() is called explicitly while unwinding the stack. That might
be more useful (or might not; I don't actually see much use either
way).

In fact, with reading #1 it seems redundant, because when is
terminate() called implicitly that wouldn't be covered by the first
part of the paragraph?

Yechezkel Mett

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