From kde-devel  Mon May 24 11:30:17 1999
From: Mosfet <mosfet () jorsm ! com>
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 11:30:17 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: FYI: size optimizations
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Yes, I believe this is the case with exceptions (it has worked for me in the
past). Perhaps we should make a exceptions flag autoconf variable along with
rtti ;-)

On Sun, 23 May 1999, Lars Knoll wrote:
> On Sun, 23 May 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote:
> 
> > > I'm wondering if we could make that default for kde* ? If we can save
> > > space that easily, it's really worth thinking about.
> > 
> > I've been thinkin about this for ages, but there are some apps which use
> > exceptions, and some that use RTTI; both of which need to be present in
> > any C++ support libraries.  This means that you can't compile kdelibs with
> > either of those flags, but perhaps you can with kdebase.
> 
> I might be wrong, but I thought, you could disable exception handling in
> the libs, even if there are apps using them. You just won't be able to
> propagate exceptions through the library, but neither qt, nor kdelibs use
> them (meaning there aren't any functions in the libs calling functions
> that might throw exceptions), so shouldn't be a problem.
> 
> Cheers,
> Lars
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