https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38658
Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEW Last reconfirmed| |2018-06-22 Ever confirmed|0 |1 --- Comment #4 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Martin Sebor from comment #3) > There are situations when throwing an exception is required to result in a > call to std::terminate() but those require the exception to escape the > function where it's thrown from. Outside of those, it seems to me that as > long as the observable effect of the optimized code is indistinguishable > from the original (such as in the test case) removing try/catch statements > should be a valid optimization. Agreed.