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[except.uncaught] Tidy the specification for uncaught exceptions #7276

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@AlisdairM AlisdairM commented Oct 1, 2024

Several concurrent fixes. First include the normative wording that 'uncaught_exceptions' returns the number of uncaught exceptions on the current thread. This wording is present in the core language.

Then move the core wording for when an exception is uncaught directly into the text that talks about caught and uncaught exceptions. In the process, turn the reference to into a note, so that there is only one normative specification.

Finally, remove [except.uncaught] as it is now empty, and add the missing descriptive sentence to the intro paragraph of [except.special.general]. This happens to produce quite a pleasing page-break, but that is just luck, not design.

Several concurrent fixes.  First include the normative wording
that 'uncaught_exceptions' returns the number of uncaught
exceptions *on the current thread*.  This wording is present
in the core language.

Then move the core wording for when an exception is uncaught
directly into the text that talks about caught and uncaught
exceptions.  In the process, turn the reference to
 into a note, so that there is only
one normative specification.

Finally, remove [except.uncaught] as it is now empty, and add
the missing descriptive sentence to the intro paragraph of
[except.special.general].  This happens to produce quite a
pleasing page-break, but that is just luck, not design.
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One last tweak to update the comment in xrefdelta.tex to reference the correct PR number, and to move the first paragraph on uncaught exceptions up one, so that there is a much clearer flow from creating the exception object, being uncaught, then caught, then rethrown, before talking about what happens when an exception is uncaught.

I should be done pushing updates to this PR until I get reviews now :)

@@ -317,6 +317,15 @@
the selected constructor is odr-used\iref{basic.def.odr} and
the destructor of \tcode{T} is potentially invoked\iref{class.dtor}.

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An exception is considered uncaught
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While we're at it, this looks like a definition and presumably should be formatted and indexed as one (exception, uncaught).

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