8 Sep
2008
8 Sep
'08
7:50 p.m.
Dr. Roland Bock:
Boost does not use __attribute__ ((visibility("default"))), therefore typeinfo for exceptions is not exported and you can't catch exceptions thrown by boost.
Please forgive me if this is a stupid question:
Is that a bug or a feature? Wouldn't it be good to be able to catch exceptions thrown by boost?
I'm not sure I understand. Have you built Boost with an additional -fvisibility-hidden parameter? If you didn't, the default visibility should be the appropriately named "default", should it not? What effect would __attribute__ ((visibility("default"))) then have?