C++ and POSIX Threads Mailing List

[Mark Mitchell <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There has been a fair amount of discussion on the GCC mailing list about
possibe ways of integrating POSIX threads with ISO C++.

The key question to date has been how to deal with thread cancellation. 

People have asked questions like:

* Should cancellation throw an exception?

* What happens if the exception is caught, and not rethrown?

* What happens if the exception violates an exception-specification?

* What should be done about the fact that ISO C++ says that C library
functions like "printf" never throw exceptions?
 
Much of the GCC discussion can be found here:

  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-12/msg00743.html

However, this issue is not specific to any compiler; it's a general
question about the interaction between C++ and POSIX threads, and
perhaps even other threading systems.

Therefore, we've started a new mailing list for discussing these issues.

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