[Rcpp-devel] C++ Throwing Exception.

Dirk Eddelbuettel edd at debian.org
Wed Dec 22 19:27:07 CET 2010


On 22 December 2010 at 10:40, Andrew Redd wrote:
| To chime in about Romain's comment about recognizing more types.  I would love
| a more robust exception handling.  I think I already mentioned that but
| sometimes throwing a std::exception can be very expensive.  something a little
| bit more robust would be very helpful.   For example, with the discussion that
| we had a while back about catching the interrupt signal, I had to use an
| exception that did not inherit std::exception since it took sometimes  over a
| minute to catch the interrupt.

Replicable examples, please.

Dirk

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