Commented Issue: Android - functions marked noexcept which throw and exception but handle in the function call std::terminate [388]

This appears to have nothing to do with the C++ REST SDK as it reproduces easily on with just a basic NativeActivity with exceptions and C++11 turned on calling the following function:

void foo() noexcept // doesn’t fail if noexcept is commented out….
{
try
{
throw std::invalid_argument("hello");
}
catch (...)
{
}
}

The main reason this causes problems is with std::make_exception_ptr which is a noexcept function implemented with a try/catch like above. We need to marshal exceptions to different threads when errors occur in some cases, for example like a network error with the http_client.

Right now we can try to workaround the issue in the library by compiling with the following macros to avoid having parts of the standard library marked with noexcept:

_GLIBCXX_NOEXCEPT=;_GLIBCXX_USE_NOEXCEPT=;_GLIBCXX_THROW(_EXC)=;

Customers will also need to compile their application with this macro to avoid issues as well.

Steve
Comments: In the 2.6.0 release we employ the workaround specifying -funwind-tables in our build and as additional options for the user in the NuGet package. I'm going to close the issue as there isn't anything else we can do.