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- From: clamage@Eng.sun.com (Steve Clamage)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
- Subject: Re: Must exception classes have copy const
- Date: 9 Apr 1996 20:01:52 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Approved: clamage@eng.sun.com (comp.std.c++)
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- In article 347@dub-news-svc-5.compuserve.com, Philippe Verdy <100105.3120@compuserve.com> writes:
- >
- >The reason why I am putting this submission is that I don't
- >know why this scheme does not allow resumable exceptions:
-
- Whether exceptions should be resumable was the subject of intense debate
- over a period of two years early in the life of the C++ Committee. The
- debate was not about how to implement them. The debate was about whether
- the resumable model was appropriate for C++.
-
- The short answer is that resumable exceptions impose a much higher
- cost on all implementations and programs, even those that don't
- want resumable exceptions, and that although sometimes you do want
- to resume an exception, such cases are in practice rare. People with
- extensive experience with resumable exceptions came to believe over
- time that they were a mistake, and that you get better program designs
- if you don't use them.
-
- You can simulate resumable exceptions with non-resumable exceptions
- if you need to, so only convenience and not functionality is lost by
- the adopted language rule.
-
- Debugging is a special case. In debug mode, you want to halt at the throw
- point, not the catch point after the stack has been unwound. A reasonable
- debugger will let you halt at the throw point.
-
- Whether an uncaught exception is detected before or after stack unwinding
- is up to the implementation. The implementation can choose to provide
- a core dump or other diagnostic information as of the point of the
- uncaught throw, for example, and reasonable implementations will make
- that choice available.
- ---
- Steve Clamage, stephen.clamage@eng.sun.com
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