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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: C++ exceptions
From:       Guillaume Laurent <glaurent () telegraph-road ! org>
Date:       2005-12-05 12:58:13
Message-ID: 43943965.2050301 () telegraph-road ! org
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Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> They are as a result impossible to support for compilers without serious 
> trade-offs in either space or speed. (either 20% slower or the need to 
> included debug-info to unwind. Compiling with exceptions does the same as 
> using -g1)
>   
Care to support this with actual data ? And what's better, that the 
compiler includes stack unwinding info, or that you write it yourself 
through a bunch of if (returnCode == error) {...} ?
> The short lesson in every C++ book except Stroustrups is: Don't use them!
>   
Here's a list of C++ books I have, all very well known : 
http://telegraph-road.org/books.html

Please tell me where these say that exceptions shouldn't be used.


 
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