code guideline

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Wednesday 09 July 2014 10:23:59 Kevin Ottens wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 July 2014 10:15:03 David Faure wrote:
> > 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 don't think it's written down anywhere, but yes, please do avoid the use
> > of exception handling. I hate debugging uncaught exceptions, no way to get
> > a backtrace of where the exception was thrown.
> 
> Isn't "catch throw" in gdb just for that? I regularly use it when I've to
> deal with exceptions.

yeah that works, but only if one manually runs gdb. With DrKonqi we just get a 
rethrown exception and that sucks badly.

Cheers
Martin
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