From 4353933715234795510 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,a7bb6560624ae2c1 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: Francis Glassborow Subject: Re: More M$ Not Conforming points... Date: 1999/08/26 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 517613802 Approved: Fergus Henderson References: <7ps1sg$dev$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7pu4es$1mv3$1@news.hal-pc.org> <7q13ut$q6v$1@hardcore.ivn.net> <7q1qoa$1a68$1@news.hal-pc.org> X-Original-Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 11:36:24 +0100 X-Complaints-To: news@news.unimelb.edu.au X-Trace: izvestia.its.unimelb.edu.au 935705455 5424 128.250.29.17 (26 Aug 1999 22:10:55 GMT) Organization: Southfield Microcomputer SS X-Auth: PGPMoose V1.1 PGP comp.std.c++ iQBFAgUAN8W7XeEDnX0m9pzZAQHQggF/UZXZbaQTSJofmleHVINRGWxUAdMnEiBg 1wo9FRBROkrAj3mZWKqag1usqiwXNWXE =uZ92 Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: Francis Glassborow NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Aug 1999 22:10:55 GMT Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ In article <7q1qoa$1a68$1@news.hal-pc.org>, Greg Brewer writes >Some of that. Mainly, its because they weren't supported in Borland 3.1 >which is what I wrote my main application with. When I rewrote the >application to port to Win32, exceptions were discouraged by the vendor of >my GUI libraries as causing exe size to increase in size dramatically. My >new design made much greater use of templates and multiple inheritance than >the old and I expected that adding exception handling was one area that I >could skip. Besides, I don't see that I have anything I need exceptions to >handle in my main app. I guess your compiler vendor agrees with you which maybe why their main applications periodically fall over destroying my work, as well as doing other bizarre things at the most inconvenient times. There must be something wrong when the only sensible thing I can do to prevent loss of work is to turn a machine off (risking other types of loss and damage) so that it will not have a chance to delete temporary backup files. Francis Glassborow Journal Editor, Association of C & C++ Users 64 Southfield Rd Oxford OX4 1PA +44(0)1865 246490 All opinions are mine and do not represent those of any organisation --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://reality.sgi.com/austern_mti/std-c++/faq.html ]