Out of curiosity, which consoles don't support C++ exceptions? PS2? I would say it's a deficiency in the kernel rather than a language problem... but an underst

Out of curiosity, which consoles don't support C++ exceptions? PS2? I would say it's a deficiency in the kernel rather than a language problem... but an understandable one, because the runtime support is tricky (see http://sourcery.mentor.com/public/cxx-abi/abi-eh.html http://sourcery.mentor.com/public/cxx-abi/abi-eh.html). You're right, a standardized mangling scheme would have been nice... but there's always 'extern "C"' if you need a C++ function from asm or a linker script. Compilers really should short-circuit &&/||... were you using some kind of experimental compiler?