C++ without exceptions
At a talk at CppCon I heard that 52% of professional developers are not allowed to use exceptions in their code.
Is somebody here who belongs to this group?
How does it work in practice?
I know execeptions can be disabled with a compiler flag, but how does the STL then behave?
Are there special versions of the STL?
Is somebody here who belongs to this group?
How does it work in practice?
I know execeptions can be disabled with a compiler flag, but how does the STL then behave?
Are there special versions of the STL?
As far as I know, what most of these people mean is that they do not use C++ exceptions in the code that they write on their own; but they do use standard containers. Perhaps, this also means that they would never use std::vector<>'s at(), but that if std::vector<>'s push_back() throws, they won't handle it; they would treat it as catastrophic failure. For instance, this is what Google does.
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