[Development] Using platform-native APIs for terminating QThreads

[Marc Mutz]

On Friday 02 September 2016 22:35:59 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> However, the documentation from the ABI says that forced unwinds cannot be 
> stopped, so you can't swallow the exception even if you wanted to. Are you 
> sure that the application crashes when you pthread_exit() when 
> QThreadPrivate::start() is noexcept?

Can't swallow doesn't mean can't catch. You can catch it, but you can't not 
rethrow. But if you call std::terminate(), the rethrow will never be reached.

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