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Article #2750Re: Exceptions in destructors
From: Mike Ball
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 15:58
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 15:58
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In article <495ls8$17o@steel.interlog.com> herbs@interlog.com (Herb Sutter) writes: >Is disallowing a rethrow deliberate, or something that could be relaxed to >allow rethrowing as Cline and Lomow suggest? It was very deliberate and is considered an extremely important restriction by part of the C++ community. It means that you can believe the exception specification. This allows a number of significant optimizations. In our own customers, the more heavily they use exceptions the more they want this restriction. -Mike Ball- SunSoft Developer Products [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. Submission address: std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu. Contact address: std-c++-request@ncar.ucar.edu. The moderation policy is summarized in http://dogbert.lbl.gov/~matt/std-c++/policy.html. ]
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!engnews1.Eng.Sun.COM!taumet!clamage From: Michael.Ball@Eng.sun.com (Mike Ball) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Exceptions in destructors Date: 27 Nov 1995 15:58:43 GMT Organization: Sun Approved: clamage@eng.sun.com (comp.std.c++) Message-ID: <49b4ft$gqm@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> References: <9532523.1824@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <494oog$hmf@gabi.gabi-soft.fr> <495ls8$17o@steel.interlog.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: taumet.eng.sun.com Content-Type: text X-Nntp-Posting-Host: cygany.eng.sun.com Content-Length: 564 X-Lines: 14 Originator: clamage@taumet