How does the standards committee look upon exceptions generated in
functions that cannot be exited (i.e. their stack can't be unwound in a
straightforward manner) cleanly?

The biggest one that comes to mind are interrupt service routines and what
not (some would argue C++ isn't the greatest for this, but still....).
While ISRs are system/compiler dependent, it would seem that an ISR that
either threw an exception or failed to handle a thrown exception would
cause a system crash....would a default catch handler be required in this
case?

Brian
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