[Exceptional C++ Style] Item 12: Exception Safety: IsitWort hit?

[Adrian Fagg]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: effective-cpp-bounces at accu.org
> [mailto:effective-cpp-bounces at accu.org]On Behalf Of Paul Grenyer
> Sent: 03 December 2004 09:54

> > The partial solution I found was on windows to get the test
> harness to set
> the structured exception handler so
> > that OS exceptions were turned into test failures, and
> everything could
> carry on (apart from the possibility
> > that the bug had just written over something important)
>
> This is what Aeryn does when used with MSVC, but I haven't
> found a platform
> independent solution yet.

My instinct would be to abandon the remaining tests but try to clean up and
report what tests were run correctly. Even running tests in a lightweight
thread doesn't fully isolate them from the rest of the application (still
sharing the address space), although the stack at least won't cause
problems.

Regards,

Adrian

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