"Daryle Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> While writing some other code, I checked out how some of the macros in
> Boost.Test are implemented.  The BOOST_CHECK_THROW and
> BOOST_CHECK_EXCEPTION macros flag when an intentional exception was
> missed and when the expected exception type was caught.  But what about
> when an exception of the _wrong_ type is thrown.  Shouldn't there be a
> catch(...) that notes that the wrong type was caught and re-throws the
> error?

Any operation may throw an unexpected exception. To manage this Boost.Test
runs test cases under control of the Execution Monitor. Any exception thrown
from inside a test case gets caught and reported. So I believe current
semantic of above tools is correct.

Gennadiy.



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