On Tuesday 15 of November 2011 21:14:14 Jonathan Wakely wrote: > 2011/11/15 Tobias Ringström: > > > > That's more like it. Is the std::thread behaviour a bug, or am I missing > > something? Though the C++11 standard seems to allow the stack to be unwound > > before std::terminate is called, it exceptionally unhelpful. I've search but > > not been able to find any explanation. > > No, it's not a bug, but it could be improved. i think it's a gcc/debuginfo bug because at __cxa_throw there's no foo() in backtrace: Breakpoint 3, 0x00007ffff7b8f960 in __cxa_throw () from /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x00007ffff7b8f960 in __cxa_throw () from /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 #1 0x00007ffff7b3d87e in std::__throw_system_error(int) () from /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 #2 0x00007ffff7b479f7 in std::thread::_M_start_thread(std::shared_ptr<std::thread::_Impl_base>) () from /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 #3 0x0000000000401344 in std::thread::thread<void (&)()> (this=0x7fffffffdec0, __f=@0x400fb4) at /usr/include/c++/4.6.2/thread:135 #4 0x0000000000401076 in main () at t.cpp:9 gdb workaround: (gdb) frame 3 #3 0x0000000000401344 in std::thread::thread<void (&)()> (this=0x7fffffffdec0, __f=@0x400fb4) at /usr/include/c++/4.6.2/thread:135 (gdb) p __f $1 = (void (&)(void)) @0x400fb4: {void (void)} 0x400fb4 <foo()>