Re: [boost] Disable exceptions

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-04-08 14:39:07

----- Original Message -----
From: "Giovanni Bajo" <giovannibajo_at_[hidden]>

> RE: [boost] Proposal: string_castHello,
>
> I was wondering if it was possible to make boost work without
exception
> support.

If you're willing to do the coding work, some parts of boost could be
made to work that way.

>  I am not asking this as a way to support old compilers, but only
> because in my projects there are several points in which I have to
disable
> exceptions for performance reasons (with most compilers, it seems that
> handling exceptions still have a high run-time cost). In a perfect
world
> where exception support does not slow down your code (I don't know if
this
> is possible at all)

Metrowerks Codewarrior, Sun CC, and GCC 3.x all implement a
no-runtime-overhead model for the most popular target platforms.

-Dave