[boost] Re: Exception handling - reprise

From: Gustavo Guerra (gustavobt_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-06-03 19:55:49

"Giovanni Bajo" <giovannibajo_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:051f01c20b4a$5a73d020$fa4e2a97_at_bagio...
> Hello,
>
> There were some talks some time ago about introducing a new macro
> (BOOST_NO_EXCEPTIONS or something) to completely disable any kind of
> exception support from Boost (mainly due to performance issues on several
> compilers).

That would be also very usefull on platforms that don't support exceptions,
like Windows CE with Embedded Visual C++ 3.0. STLport works ok around that,
even with the iostreams enabled. Maybe we could take a look on how they
approach that problem.

Gustavo Guerra