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here is a great post from Owen Taylor in 1999 after this idea was repeatedly raised for the "g" stack on Linux: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-list/1999-

by hp 15y ago

here is a great post from Owen Taylor in 1999 after this idea was repeatedly raised for the "g" stack on Linux: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-list/1999-December/msg00609.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-list/1999-December/msg0... it kept coming up, too: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2001-February/msg00107.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2001-February/... Here is what GLib 2.0 ended up with instead, which works well: http://developer.gnome.org/glib/2.31/glib-Error-Reporting.html http://developer.gnome.org/glib/2.31/glib-Error-Reporting.ht...

tptacek 15y ago
It's worth mentioning here that exceptions are notoriously unsafe even in C++ programs, where automated ctors and dtors should mitigate these concerns (but inevitably don't because of pointers).