Hope I am not stepping into a religious war but. I think the general consensus is that it is not a good idea to use exception specification on functions/methods. My main objection is that I do not want an unexpected exception to make the application exit with a call to 'unexpected()'. I think Hurb Sutter summaries the point well (an more eloquently that I) on this page: http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/082.htm (see section 4) Martin. -----Original Message----- From: gcc-help-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gcc-help-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Perry Smith Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 9:27 AM To: MSX to GCC Subject: Exception Specifications I believe I saw in some of the boost libraries that they do not use exception specifications because some compilers produce slower code. I'm considering adding exception specifications to most/all of my functions -- mostly for my own sake. But I'm wondering how it will affect the compiler's generated code. (i.e. if it is going to affect performance, I can put the exception specifications in comments just as easily). I'm currently using gcc 4.0.2. Thank you, Perry Smith ( pedz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ) Ease Software, Inc. ( http://www.easesoftware.com ) Low cost SATA Disk Systems for IBMs p5, pSeries, and RS/6000 AIX systems
