Is there any reasonably portable way to determine that a piece of code is
executing as a part of exception "processing" (e.g. in a destructor called
in the process of "unwinding" the stack)?

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"Vlad Vinogradsky" <vinogradsky@rdaconsultants.com> writes:

>Is there any reasonably portable way to determine that a piece of code is
>executing as a part of exception "processing" (e.g. in a destructor called
>in the process of "unwinding" the stack)?

The uncaught_exception() function defined in <exception> is probably
what you are looking for.  See 18.6.4 [lib.uncaught].

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Is there any reasonably portable way to determine that a piece of code is
executing as a part of exception "processing" (e.g. in a destructor called
in the process of "unwinding" the stack)?

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