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   Message 31,769 of 33,346   
   Dave Abrahams to All   
   Re: Just making sure about an assumption   
   29 Dec 11 14:48:48   
   
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   From: dave@boostpro.com   
      
   on Thu Dec 29 2011, Daryle Walker  wrote:   
      
   > For a function like:   
   >   
   > T  my_function() noexcept(XXX)   
   > {   
   >    T  result = ...;   
   >    //...   
   >    return result;   
   > }   
   >   
   > Does XXX have to include something like   
   > is_nothrow_copy_constructible (or is it ..._assignable?  Or   
   > ..._move_...?) due to the transfer of the return value to the calling   
   > function?   
      
   Yeah, _move_....   
      
   > Or does any exception there count against the calling function?   
      
   Count against?   
      
   > I hope it would be like the latter because functions can't really stop   
   > exceptions that happen during return-value transfer (since the C++   
   > runtime handles it).   
      
   IIRC, there's no automatic deduction of noexcept-ness from the return   
   type of a function.  Maybe there should be.   
      
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