code guideline

[Rodrigo Bonifacio]

Dear all, I am conducting a survey about the use of exception handling
constructs in C++. I would really appreciate if you could contribute
to this research by answering a few questions on the subject.

The survey is available on-line:

https://pt.surveymonkey.com/s/exceptionHandling

All the best,

Rodrigo.

2014-07-09 15:20 GMT-03:00 Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org>:
> On Saturday 28 June 2014 08:51:42 Rodrigo Bonifacio wrote:
>> Dear all, is there any code guideline that recommends developers to avoid
>> the use of exception handling mechanisms within the core libraries of KDE?
>
> I'm going to let others speak about the use of exceptions in your own code,
> but note this:
>
> Qt classes are not exception-safe.
>
> So if you are allowed to use exceptions in your part of the KDE libraries,
> make sure that you don't:
>
>  a) use Qt container types, like QList and QVector, on types that may throw on
> construction or copying
>  b) let exceptions escape back into Qt code, including:
>   1) slot activation
>   2) event handling
>   3) callbacks (such as qSort)
>
> Using QString and QByteArray in code that uses exceptions is mostly safe
> because no exception can happen inside them. Stack unwinding would be no
> different than a regular end of scope anyway.
>
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