Re: [boost] Disable exceptions

From: Matthias Troyer (troyer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-04-09 12:45:00

On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 01:18  PM, John Maddock wrote:

>> I want to support this proposal. At the moment I always patch
>> those boost files which rely on exceptions to get a second
>> set of exception-free files for the same reason. The two main
>> libraries I patch that way are smart pointers and lexical_cast.
>
> I introduced BOOST_NO_EXCEPTIONS for exactly that, only regex supports 
> it as
> yet as far as I know - would you like to submit parches for the smart
> pointers and/or lexical_cast libs?
>

I see in regex that you always abort when an exception would be thrown.
This is also an acceptable behavior in my applications and I guess
the only consistent behavior. If there are no better ideas, I'll clean
up my patches and submit them.

Matthias