[Rcpp-devel] Rcpp::exception + threads = disaster

[Joshua N Pritikin]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 07:56:40AM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> See several (extended) discussions at GitHub around the issues that 
> changed and improved exception handling and stack traces. A fair 
> amount of very nice work made Rcpp more robust here.
> 
> In short, it not a trivial issue.

That's it? That's the end of discussion?

I would like to know specifically why Rcpp::stop cannot be 
thread-safe. Of all the APIs you provide, thread-safety is 
particularly important for exceptions. When something goes wrong, 
programmers shouldn't have to guess what is going on.

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