On 27/03/12 13:53, Caolán McNamara wrote: > On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 17:05 +0000, Michael Meeks wrote:
>> It is also a markedly higher proportion than mozilla: > > Maybe large bits of mozilla are compiled without exceptions ?, > historically at least given https://developer.mozilla.org/en/C > ++_Portability_Guide#Don%27t_use_exceptions exceptions seems to have > been avoided. there appear to be plans to use C++ exceptions in mozilla land, though a quick search doesn't seem to find anything about when and how these things were actually implemented: http://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/2007/12/19/exceptions/ http://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/2007/11/26/mozilla-2-outparamdel/ https://wiki.mozilla.org/Exceptions >> They provide us with very little real value since we just abort when >> they are thrown in ~all cases. > > These specific bad_alloc exceptions or all of our exceptions?, because > trying to e.g. revert to a global -fno-exceptions world seems > impractical. indeed: http://blog.mozilla.com/nnethercote/2011/01/18/the-dangers-of-fno-exceptions/ _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
