On 9 May 2012 10:22, Olivier Goffart <oliv...@woboq.com> wrote: > On Wednesday 09 May 2012 09:45:31 Andreas Holzammer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I was hitting qtxmlpatterns not compiling, because Exceptions are not >> enabled by default for Windows CE. My guess is that this was done for >> performance and or security reasons. >> >> I would like to propose that we enable the Exceptions for Windows CE for >> Qt5 as default. If you have concerns, comments or issues with that, >> please answer to this mail and explain it. > > You can enable exceptions only in xmlpattern. They are not suppose to > "traverse" other layers of Qt. > > In particular, Qt does not play well with exceptions. They won't pass trough > the event loop, and most of the Qt code is not exceptions safe (code often do > not expect a signal to throw) > > So it is probably better to leave them disabled, as exceptions still add lot > of code to the binary, and that won't be of any use
I think the point here is that 1) xmlpatterns doesn't build under any platform if exceptions are disabled (it won't "expose" exceptions in its API / propagate them, but it uses them internally); 2) WinCE *always* get exceptions disabled. While 1) is of course a design decision (so far, so good) what's the reason for 2)? Prevent a massive code expansion? Broken MS compilers? Cheers, -- Giuseppe D'Angelo _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
