STL "containers" and "streams" that need exceptions are pretty useless for any sort of critical code IMHO. STL "algorithms", on the other hand, are pretty usefu

STL "containers" and "streams" that need exceptions are pretty useless for any sort of critical code IMHO. STL "algorithms", on the other hand, are pretty useful and work with exceptions disabled just fine. This, of course, depends on your definition of "critical code". I, for one, don't see how anything critical can rely on the single memory allocator that came bundled with the compiler.