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Etay_Bogner@mail.stil.scitex.com (Etay Bogner) writes:

>In article <4cpmh0$ltf@natasha.rmii.com>, jtc@rmii.com (Jim Cochrane) wrote:
>
>>> Does the proposed ANSI standard say anything about throwing an exception
>>> from within a signal handler?

No.

>>> Is the resulting behavior safe and
>>> well-defined, or is it undefined or implementation-dependent?

Because the draft standard doesn't say anything about it,
I guess it is implicitly undefined behaviour.

>Again, I wonder why this passed the moderation ...
>
>signal handlers is a C++ issue ? come on ...

I think the issue of whether the standard says anything about *Foo* is
generally appropriate to comp.std.c++, even if the answer is "No.", and
the resulting discussion rather short.

P.S. Probably Etay Bogner's meta-post should not have got past moderation ;-)
As a reminder, comments on the moderation policy should be addressed
c++-std-request@ncar.ucar.edu.

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