From kde-devel  Mon Jul 30 22:28:24 2001
From: Martijn Klingens <mklingens () yahoo ! com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 22:28:24 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: reason behind fno-exceptions?
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=99653202522533

On Monday 30 July 2001 23:27, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> #if Allan Sandfeld Jensen
>
> > C++ exceptions horrible/horribly implemented, and if you do serious work
> > where you need to know whats going on you deactivate them or use C.
> > Somehow they got accepted in one of the new C++ standards, which is why
> > they are on by default.
>
> What's wrong with C++ exceptions, besides the fact that they cause
> large memory overhead with gcc ?

"besides" ? I think that single argument is convincing enough... Actually, I 
also think it's the only argument, but I haven't heard stronger arguments 
that often...

Martijn
 
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