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Well, it's nice to ignore facts...

Well, it's nice to ignore facts...

Posted Sep 4, 2011 21:08 UTC (Sun) by jwakely (subscriber, #60262)
In reply to: Well, it's nice to ignore facts... by cmccabe
Parent article: HP dropping webOS devices

Sorry for misunderstanding then. The C++ standard includes RTTI and exceptions as part of the language. They're not optional, so disabling them takes you into non-standard territory (but still reasonably portable, as -fno-rtti or -fno-exceptions and their equivalents are quite common non-standard features.)

There is (or was) an "Embedded C++" dialect which omits RTTI and exceptions, among other features, but it's not a standard and as Stroustrup has said "To the best of my knowledge EC++ is dead (2004), and if it isn't it ought to be."


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