digitalmars.D.learn - core.thread.Thread.start is marked as "nothrow" but documentation says
https://dlang.org/phobos/core_thread.html#.Thread final nothrow Thread.start() Looking at the code, no "throw new ..." is seen, but the function "onThreadError" is called which has "throw" in it. Most weird thing is that "onThreadError" function is marked as "nothrow" but it still throws. I would think that yes, maybe the compiler might not be able to see it because throw is found in another function, but how come "onThreadError" throws with nothrow.
Jan 23 2016
On 23.01.2016 12:44, tcak wrote:https://dlang.org/phobos/core_thread.html#.Thread final nothrow Thread.start() Looking at the code, no "throw new ..." is seen, but the function "onThreadError" is called which has "throw" in it. Most weird thing is that "onThreadError" function is marked as "nothrow" but it still throws. I would think that yes, maybe the compiler might not be able to see it because throw is found in another function, but how come "onThreadError" throws with nothrow.onThreadError [1] throws a ThreadError [2] which derives from Error, as the name suggests. nothrow functions may throw Errors, because Errors are considered a way of force-exiting the program. Errors are not supposed to be caught. So onThreadError is fine. And if Thread.start can actually only throw ThreadError, and not ThreadException, then that one is ok too, but the documentation is wrong and should be fixed. [1] https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/blob/33f1962747801be35a48f4875c909e16747fdcce/src/core/thread.d#L2972 [2] https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/blob/33f1962747801be35a48f4875c909e16747fdcce/src/core/thread.d#L88
Jan 23 2016