what happens when a thread throws an exception?

[unregistered]

say i create a thread using pthread_create and the function that the thread executes throws an exception, what happens to that thread then?

[kbw]

If it's unhandled, the thread terminates. That's bad.

[unregistered]

But if I catch and handle the exception in the main function (which invoked pthread_create on the function which throws the exception), the thread executing the invoked function would terminate am I correct?

[kbw]

I don't think you can do the handing it in main(), it's not really in the thread's call stack.

[unregistered]

so that means that the thread's call stack begins with the function which is passed to pthread_create?
and if I don't handle the exception in that function then the thread terminates? am I correct?

[kbw]

Correct. And it goes without freeing dynamically allocated resources aquired by the thread unless they're released thru the normal stack unwind mechanism.

[unregistered]

ok thanks that clears things up