From kde-devel Mon Jul 30 20:20:56 2001 From: Guillaume Laurent Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 20:20:56 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: OT Re: reason behind fno-exceptions? X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=99652451026332 On Monday 30 July 2001 19:58, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote: > C++ exceptions horrible/horribly implemented, No, the way they are implemented in g++ sucks. That doesn't mean the concept is broken. > and if you do serious work > where you need to know whats going on you deactivate them or use C. No. > Somehow > they got accepted in one of the new C++ standards, which is why they are on > by default. There currently is only one C++ standard, and exceptions predate it by more than a decade. According to DaEC++, C++ exceptions were designed from 1984 to 1989. The first implementation as defined in the ARM appeared in sping 1992. The Standard was finally voted in november 1997. -- Guillaume. http://www.telegraph-road.org >> Visit http://master.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<