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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: -fno-exceptions?
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () alpha ! tat ! physik ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date:       1999-05-28 18:41:39
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listasj@cban.com wrote:
> 
> >
> > I cannot agree. Do we really need to punish every KDE user with bloated
> > libraries just because a chat-program is written in a way incompatible with the
> > rest of the programs?
> >
> > Exceptions are a cool tool on a technical level, but if it leads to such
> > bloated libraries we should avoid it like hell.
> >
> 
> Then let's remove kSirc from CVS.  Exceptions are fundamental to kSirc it
> uses them for it's main parsing loops (no, their use is not only for error
> handling).  Exceptions are an important C++ feature and going backto
> setjmp/longjmp is plain stupid.
> 
> In due respect through, egcs is starting to use exceptions (example of new
> was given earlier) so you're not going to be able to get away from them.
> The only bloat is in disk space usage, and with 8 gig disks selling for
> < $300 canadian I really don't care anymore. (if you don't beleive me,
> read up on linux memory managment)
> 
I think, we won't remove exception support from kdelibs. From apps we
may
remove them where they are not used. All Corba related apps will use
them
anyway and there will be a lot of them in the near future, not?

Greetings, Stephan

-- 
Und sie nannten ihn, wie er selbst unterschrieb -
Den Trojanischen Pferdedieb

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