Re: C++ exceptions are broken.

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"James K. Lowden" <jklowden@speakeasy.net> writes:

> Oh, so you mean that the programmer may do something in handling the
> exception to convert logic_error to runtime_error.  Sure.  

No, the problem is

  throw std::logic_error("I've made a terrible mistake");

calls the constructor 

  std::logic_error(const std::string&);

which has to construct a string, which might throw std::bad_alloc


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