Re: [boost] Exception handling - reprise

From: John Maddock (john_maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-06-04 07:07:16

> 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). This macro might be defined from within the compiler config
> headers where it's possible to autodetect if exceptions are disabled, or
> specified manually by the user on command line whenever he needs it. I
> certainly am not Boost-expert enough to do this, but I'd be grateful if
> someone could work on it before 1.29.

That macro is in the config system, and is supported by regex at least,
which other libs would you like to support - it shouldn't be that hard to
patch for this?

John Maddock
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