[Coin-discuss] exception specifications

[Laszlo Ladanyi]

Done.

--Laci

On Sun, 21 May 2006, Matthew Galati wrote:

> Hi Laci,
> 
> Was this ever done?
> 
> Matt
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: coin-discuss-bounces at list.coin-or.org 
> > [mailto:coin-discuss-bounces at list.coin-or.org] On Behalf Of 
> > Laszlo Ladanyi
> > Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 3:05 PM
> > To: Discussions about open source software for Operations Research
> > Subject: Re: [Coin-discuss] exception specifications
> > 
> > Hi Matt,
> > 
> > I looked at the page Matt pointed to (and searched a bit 
> > elsewhere, too), and the reasons for NOT to have exception 
> > specification in the code is fairly compelling. I propose to 
> > remove them all. According to the docs I found this should 
> > not break the compilation of any existing code relying on COIN code.
> > Could people verify this? If really nothing breaks and noone 
> > comes up with other reasons for having the exception 
> > specifications then I'll remove then at the end of March.
> > 
> > --Laci
> > 
> > On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Matthew Galati wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Is there a good reason to have an exception specification 
> > in the prototypes? As I understand it, if you miss an 
> > exception specification, this can cause run-time errors that 
> > should otherwise work fine. Identifying exceptions (for the 
> > sake of the user) can simply be done with documentation 
> > (comments), rather than in the prototype.
> > > 
> > > This seems to be a debatable topic, but I somewhat agree 
> > with the views on this webpage:
> > > http://www.codeproject.com/cpp/stdexceptionspec.asp
> > > 
> > > I don't feel strongly either way, but I do want to clean up 
> > my VS.net builds (I get several hundred of these):
> > > 
> > c:\cygwin\home\magala\COIN\Coin\include\CoinPackedVectorBase.h
> > pp(66) : 
> > > warning C4290: C++ exception specification ignored except 
> > to indicate 
> > > a function is not __declspec(nothrow)
> > > 
> > c:\cygwin\home\magala\COIN\Coin\include\CoinPackedVectorBase.h
> > pp(74) : 
> > > warning C4290: C++ exception specification ignored except 
> > to indicate 
> > > a function is not __declspec(nothrow)
> > > 
> > > If we feel strongly that exception specifications are 
> > necessary, can we at least add a pragma to turn off compiler warnings?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Matt
> > > 
> > > 
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