On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Tobias Ringström <tobias@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 01/08/2013 05:05 PM, Jonathan Wakely wrote: >> >> On 8 January 2013 13:28, Tobias Ringström <tobias@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> On 11/15/2011 09:14 PM, Jonathan Wakely wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> What happens in std::thread is that we catch the exception (at which >>>> point the stack has been unwound) then call std::terminate explicitly. >>>> That was done to ensure we onform to the standard and terminate as >>>> required. >>>> >>>> Now that the compiler support noexcept we should use that instead and >>>> not catch the exception, causing the runtime to call terminate without >>>> unwinding the stack. >>>> >>>> I'll make that change for 4.7.0 >>> >>> >>> >>> Remember this from over a year ago? >>> >>> I just tried this with 4.7.2 on Fedora 17, and as far as I can tell, it >>> behaves just like 4.6. Did this change never happen? >> >> >> I tried adding it, it didn't help. I don't remember why. > > > I've just discovered that noexcept does (not so) funny things with > backtraces. I'll make another post shortly. It may be the same thing. > > /Tobias > A bugzilla PR would probably help the issue not be lost.