From kde-devel  Thu May 27 08:40:14 1999
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () ens ! ascom ! ch>
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 08:40:14 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: -fno-exceptions?
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David Faure wrote:
> 
> On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 08:56:23AM +0200, Mario Weilguni wrote:
> > Can we safely use -fno-exceptions on the core libraries? 
> > None of these files
> > uses exceptions, and the binaries are MUCH smaller:
> > kdecore -fexceptions: 1003kb
> > kdecore -fno-exceptions: 582kb
> >
> > If possible, we should add this as default.
> 
> This looks like a very good idea.
> Please proceed. :)

Perhaps we can add in the KDE-developers howto that exceptions and
RTTI are not to be used in libraries and that their use is depreciated
in other places?

Cheers,
Waldo