std::vector is a container in a c++ standard library. C++ is a language. You're mixing apples and oranges. What I'm saying is that you can use C++ without havi

std::vector is a container in a c++ standard library. C++ is a language. You're mixing apples and oranges. What I'm saying is that you can use C++ without having to use STL and you can use C++ just fine to implement your own exceptionless container if you want (and many such implementations exist already). And you can also compile with exceptions disabled. Should your code throw it will terminate the process.