BOOST_ATTRIBUTE_NORETURN causes stack pointer corruption

[Janosch <gagabla0@…>]

Hello, i ran into a strange problem with a very small project of mine. Whenever an exception is thrown in a boost package using boost::throw_exception and my program terminates (no exceptions are beeing catched yet) i get a message box saying:

Run-Time Check Failure #0 - The value of ESP was not properly saved across a function call ...

I was able to track this down to the BOOST_ATTRIBUTE_NORETURN declaration of boost::throw_exception. When i remove this from a copy of this function, the problem disappears.

I am compiling with the following settings:

• Compiler: MS Visual Studio C++ 2010 Express
• Multithreading: yes
• Runtime-linking: static
• Build-type: debug

My minimal test-program looks like this:

#include "boost/throw_exception.hpp"

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {

boost::throw_exception(std::exception("foo")); <-- this will produce the problem

return 0;

}

I originally asked about the problem here: ​http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17599772/boost-exceptions-lead-to-stack-pointer-corruption-run-time-check-failure-0

[Emil Dotchevski]

I ran your program against the current trunk revision of Boost and it worked fine. I was going to add this as a test in Boost Exception, however I realized that the string constructor of std::exception is not standard, so I didn't.

It probably makes sense for you to run libs/exception/test/1-throw_exception_test.cpp with your setup. If that crashes too, then most likely the problem is specific to your system.

[vpozdyayev+boost@…]

This issue is still there for Boost 1.60.0 under MSVC2015.2 (configuration=Debug, platform=x86).

[vpozdyayev+boost@…]

Note: the "minimal test-program" fails (with "The value of ESP..."), libs/exception/test/1-throw_exception_test.cpp does not.