[C++-sig] Strange about the C++ exception in Python

[Mathieu Malaterre]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 1:23 AM, David Abrahams <dave at boostpro.com> wrote:
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> on Fri Jul 11 2008, "Grant" <grant.tang-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
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>> By googling I found this comment:
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>> "Many platforms and compilers are not able to consistently catch exceptions
>> thrown across shared library boundaries."
>
> I think that's probably an outdated statement.

Isn't it related to the rtti support in gcc ?

http://wiki.python.org/moin/boost.python/CrossExtensionModuleDependencies

where you have to load C++ python module with RTLD_GLOBAL ...

2 cents,
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Mathieu