Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| Is there any reason why we explicitly turn off exception handling anymore?
| Our oldest 'supported' compiler is gcc 2.95 and that has no problems in
| this regard.
>
| I ask for purely selfish reasons. My cross-platform glob function and my
| Bourne shell-like command line parser both use exceptions internally
| (though these are not propogated to the outside world) and I'd like to use
| them as-is.
>
| What would be required in the code base if exceptions were to be allowed?
| Would an uncaught exception be caught by our signal handler so that
| emergency_save would continue to be invoked?
I was planning to move towards exception handling for 1.5, but not for
1.4.
I do not think we should turn it on right now, even if I too would
like that.
And, no uncaught exceptions would not be cauth by the signal handler.
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Lgb
