[GD-General] RE: Gamedevlists-general digest, Vol 1 #200 - 9 msgs

[Jeff L. <je...@SP...>]

> From: Jeff Laing <je...@SP...>
> >You need to work *hard* to get C++ exceptions to work across DLL
> >boundaries.
> 
> From: Brian Hook <bri...@py...>
> Don't use them

Sure, *you* don't.  But what about that groovy 3rd party SDK ?

And, for that matter, what happens when you do a "new" in your DLL and its
out of memory?  When I was a boy, it threw an exception, rather than
returning NULL like good old reliable malloc.

And remembering to put try/catch around every new (especially those implicit
calls to copy constructors the compiler adds for you!!!) takes quite some
discipline.

Again, I'm not trying to convince you, just repeat the folklore for the
youngsters.  There's wolves in them thar dlls.

;-)

Jeff Laing <je...@sp...>
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