[Development] Disavowing the Lakos Rule for Q_ASSERT

[Thiago Macieira]

On Monday 26 August 2024 17:18:22 GMT-7 Ville Voutilainen wrote:
> So eventually such libraries
> need to
> be fixed so that they ship configurations and builds where such
> functions can be compiled as non-noexcept with contract checks turned
> on, so that
> throwing violation handlers can be used. With those (useless)
> noexcepts there, we have the library that's supposed to be the most
> generic and the
> most foundational, and it fails to be that, it bakes in a very
> particular failure mode for logic errors.

Is there a paper proposing the removal of those noexcepts?

And where does it end? Do any pointer dereferences imply a precondition and 
thus not-noexcept?

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Principal Engineer - Intel DCAI Platform & System Engineering
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