On Nov 9, 2007, at 4:50 PM, Chris Lattner wrote: >>> The main problem with RTTI and EH is the impact on binary size. >>> Many clients of LLVM and at least one client of clang use them in >>> a JIT context. Having the binaries be as small as possible makes >>> it easier for people to distribute them with their apps. >> >> I think that may be the least-flaky objection to EH that I've >> heard so far. (: > > :) > > It is actually really frustrating, because certain pieces of the > compiler (e.g. error recovery in the parser) could be slightly > cleaner with exceptions.
<nod> I know the feeling; I've wanted to use exceptions for exactly that purpose in a certain other C/C++ parser. James Widman -- Gimpel Software http://gimpel.com _______________________________________________ cfe-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/cfe-dev
