On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 01:16:43PM -0800, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > Mark Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > But, aren't big C++ shared libraries rather different? Does KDE > > actually use throw() everywhere, or visibility attributes? But, > > presumably, most people don't replace the implementation of > > ScrollBar::ScrollUp or whatever. I'd be happy to know I'm wrong here, > > but I'd be surprised if there aren't large amounts of legacy code that > > would be hurt by this change. Do you disagree? > > I don't really have any doubt that somebody, somewhere, wants to > override a function in a C++ shared library, and wants the overriding > function to throw an exception. There is really only one correct > compiler behaviour here.
I strongly agree that there is only one correct behaviour here. If KDE doesn't use throw(), or visibility attributees, that's a failing in KDE, not the compiler. r~
