Re: Exception handling

2004-10-30 Thread Angus Leeming
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | 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 func

Re: Exception handling

2004-10-29 Thread John Weiss
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 10:03:34PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > And, no uncaught exceptions would not be cauth by the signal handler. Instead, we'd have to create our own custom handler for uncaught exceptions. There are a couple of strategies for implementing something like that, so it

Re: Exception handling

2004-10-29 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
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 funct

Exception handling

2004-10-29 Thread Angus Leeming
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