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Fergus Henderson (fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU) wrote:
: 
: >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.
: 
[...]
: 
: 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.

Implicit in a qestion of what the Standard says are the related
questions of what it should say and why --- why shouldn't signal
handlers be allowed to throw exceptions?  (The question seems both
interesting and appropriate.)

Tom Payne (thp@cs.ucr.edu)
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