[Qt-interest] Qt and C++ exceptions

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 23.05.09 11:18:44, Scott Aron Bloom wrote:
> I worked with MSVC6 long enough to know at the time, it was a fine
> compiler, but there was way too long a gap between it and the 2003 .NET
> VC 7.0 release, which gave it a really really bad reputation.
> 
> To make matters worse, when the 7.0 compiler came out, there were many
> required code changes (in the STL side especially) that "forced" many
> companies to sit on 6.0 longer then they wanted to, ie they couldn't
> justify the time in fixing working code, just to go to the latest
> compiler.
> 
> However, I distinctly remember, that some exceptions being thrown from
> inside a DLL were not catchable in another DLL or the main app.  
> 
> That said, I still run into clients who were running it as late as last
> year.  They were not however using QT, but it's still in use :(

And my company still hast (large) customers that use Qt (3 and 4)
compiled with MSVC6. Apart from that at least Sun also still uses MVC6
to compile the java runtime parts. 

So MSVC6 is definetly still used quite a bit out there, even though
there might be better alternatives.

Andreas

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