This is an unofficial snapshot of the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC22 WG21 Core Issues List revision 116a. See http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/ for the official list.

2024-12-19

1053. Terminate vs undefined behavior for noexcept violation

The consensus at the Pittsburgh (March, 2010) meeting, as reflected in the adoption of paper N3050, was that it was preferable for violation of a noexcept guarantee to call std::terminate; previous versions of the paper had called for undefined behavior in this case. Not everyone was convinced that this was a good decision, however; this issue is intended to facilitate further investigation and discussion of the question with the benefit of more time and resources than were available during the deliberations at the meeting.

Rationale (August, 2010):

CWG reaffirmed the explicit decision of the Committee.