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/