https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61372
--- Comment #3 from David Crocker <dcrocker at eschertech dot com> --- (In reply to Jonathan Wakely from comment #2) > extern "C" functions can throw, so it would be wrong to unconditionally > assume they can't. True, you can write an extern "C" function that throws. But does it ever make sense to? I don't think so. Functions written in C and then declared extern "C" in a C++ program so that they can be called from C++ won't throw or propagate exceptions, even if they end up calling functions written in C++ that throw. The only reason to write a function in C++ and declare it extern "C" is so that it call be called from C, in which case it had better not throw.
