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authorDave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>2003-03-25 17:27:32 +0000
committerDave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>2003-03-25 17:27:32 +0000
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Incorporate changes from Gennaro Prota <gennaro_prota@yahoo.com>
[SVN r18081]
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in Generic Components''</a>, originally published in <a href=
"http://www.springer.de/cgi-bin/search_book.pl?isbn=3-540-41090-2">M.
Jazayeri, R. Loos, D. Musser (eds.): Generic Programming, Proc. of a
- Dagstuhl Seminar, Lecture Notes on Computer Science 1766</a>
+ Dagstuhl Seminar, Lecture Notes on Computer Science. Volume. 1766</a>
</blockquote>
<h2>Guidelines</h2>
@@ -63,13 +63,14 @@
<code>catch(...)</code>, see below.</li>
<li>
- <b><i>Don't</i> embed a std::string object</b> or any other data
- member or base class whose copy constructor could throw an exception.
- That could lead to termination during stack unwinding. Similarly,
- it's a bad idea to use a base or member whose ordinary constructor
- might throw, because, though not fatal, you will report a different
- exception than intended when that happens in a
- <i>throw-expression</i> such as:
+ <b><i>Don't</i> embed a std::string object</b> or any other
+ data member or base class whose copy constructor could throw
+ an exception. That could lead to directly to std::terminate()
+ at the throw point. Similarly, it's a bad idea to use a base
+ or member whose ordinary constructor(s) might throw, because,
+ though not necessarily fatal to your program, you may report a
+ different exception than intended from a
+ <i>throw-expression</i> that includes construction such as:
<blockquote>
<pre>
@@ -135,7 +136,7 @@ throw some_exception();
where the problem was detected. That usually means <tt>assert()</tt> or
something like it.</p>
- <p>Sometimes it is neccessary to have resilient APIs which can stand up
+ <p>Sometimes it is necessary to have resilient APIs which can stand up
to nearly any kind of client abuse, but there is usually a significant
cost to this approach. For example, it usually requires that each object
used by a client be tracked so that it can be checked for validity. If
@@ -200,7 +201,7 @@ extern "C" void (*old_translator)(unsigned, EXCEPTION_POINTERS*)
<p>Revised
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+ 25 March, 2003<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="34359" -->
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