On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 at 22:29, Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development <development@qt-project.org> wrote: > > Il 26/08/24 19:56, Thiago Macieira ha scritto: > > I'd like to request Qt code not obey that rule. In my opinion, it's a defect > > in the contract implementation rather than on Qt code. The*pre* condition > > indicates something that must be true before the method is called and > > therefore the method's own noexcept specification does not apply*yet*. > > As far as I've understood, that's only part of the issue. The other part > of the issue is that code calling the function may break: if you turn > the failed precondition check into an exception, the exception handling > will need to bubble it up through code which may not have set up the > correct unwinding state -- because it rightfully assumed that no > exception would escape out of a noexcept function.
A contract violation turned into an exception cannot escape out of a noexcept function. So it won't bubble up. -- Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
