[except.terminate] Better describe the function terminate
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jwakely
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I don't think "the C++ runtime" is defined. Maybe just "the program"?
Or "Some errors in a program cannot be recovered from, ..." so that we don't talk about "encountering an error", which sounds like it might just be bad luck rather than well-defined control flow that results from the program logic.
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Much better! Thanks! Applied your suggestion, followed by minor grammar tweaks, and force-pushed to allow a clean merge. |
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While 'std:terminate' was originally conceived as the way to report failures in the exception handling machinery, it has evolved to become a more general tool for reporting unrecoverable failures in the C++ runtime. This rewording attempts to address that evolving design, and in doing so addresses the outstanding %FIXME% that the current text is not adequately descriptive in the first place.
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How do we feel about the proposed description now? |
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std:terminatewas originally conceived as the way to report failures in the exception handling machinery, it has evolved to become a more general tool for reporting unrecoverable failures in the C++ runtime. This rewording attempts to address that evolving design, and in doing so addresses the outstanding %FIXME% that the current text is not adequately descriptive in the first place.