[Development] Question about QCoreApplicationData::*_libpaths

[Andre Somers]

On 21-1-2016 21:09, Milian Wolff wrote:
> On Donnerstag, 21. Januar 2016 07:25:21 CET André Somers wrote:
>> Op 21/01/2016 om 05:35 schreef Thiago Macieira:
>>> On Thursday 21 January 2016 05:27:50 Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>>> Thiago Macieira wrote:
>>>>> The copy constructor is called once, then the move constructor. If
>>>>> value_type's move constructor is not noexcept, then it may throw after
>>>>> the
>>>>> container resized.
>>>> Throwing an exception in a move constructor is really, really horrible. I
>>>> can see why a copy constructor would throw (out of memory, failure to
>>>> duplicate some other resource), but a move?
>>> Indeed.
>>>
>>> But the class in question may not have a move constructor. In the absence
>>> of one, the copy constructor gets called.
>> I generally don't care. If I can't copy anymore due to running out of
>> memory, I'm pretty much done anyway. No reliable way to recover from
>> that. Might as well terminate the program.
> Right, _you_ don't care. But as a library one cannot usually make such claims.
> People may want to use it in conditions where they _do_ care, and for good
> reason. It would be a shame if C++ would not be applicable for such scenarios
> just because some people didn't care enough.
>
So, please, enlighten me. What would be a realistic way to recover from 
such an exception?

André