Re: exceptions (was Re: First stage of Quesa changes now complete)

[Joseph J. S. <jo...@st...>]

At 9:23 AM -0800 1/28/05, James W. Walker wrote:

>As I may have mentioned before, the STL was designed with the 
>expectation that exception support would be on.  I think it would be 
>a poor idea to build it with exceptions off.

I'm not a big fan of using STL, either, but I realize I'm not going 
to win that argument.

>   That said, the Quesa source code does not currently contain any 
>explicit throw statements.  Hmm, I see that I did use one new 
>statement without nothrow, I guess I should fix that.  What happens 
>to a try/catch block if exceptions are off?

I don't know -- one would hope it would cause a compile-time error.

>What compilers have a noticeable overhead for exceptions?  I don't 
>think either gcc or CodeWarrior fall into that category.

CodeWarrior does, or at least did several years ago when I last 
looked into it.  It's possible things have changed since then.

Best,
- Joe

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