[Development] Setters: Passing by value or const reference?

[Thiago Macieira]

On terça-feira, 8 de maio de 2012 15.42.41, Marc Mutz wrote:
> > Most of the flags like -fno-exceptions  ... are still binary compatible.
> 
> What happens if an exception travels through C++ code compiled 
> with -fno-exceptions? Will it pass through? Will it call all dtors? Or will 
> it ruin the stack? (Not a rhetorical question: I really don't know myself).

That doesn't work any more than travelling through another language, like a 
glib- or Cocoa-based event loop. You *cannot* let exceptions propagate through 
Qt code, at all. If you let any one do that, the only thing you can do at the 
end is to quit your application with extreme prejudice. And count yourself 
lucky that it didn't crash on the way.

People who want to use exceptions are allowed to -- in their own code. And I 
welcome patches that make our Qt containers more exception safe (I think they 
stand at "basic safety" right now), so you can use them in your exception-
bearing code.

Given that, -fno-exceptions is entirely binary compatible: the container code 
is mostly inline anyway and will use whatever flags the application is using, 
while the non-inline code is out-of-bounds for exceptions anyway.

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