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10 May 201815 December 2021

nothrow new: the Variant to Use When Avoiding C++ Exceptions

I'm a relatively young C++ developer, having spent the majority of my career programming in C. While I've devoted myself to the study of the language, I still frequently learn about new features and capabilities that surprise me. I recently learned about nothrow new, a version of the new operator which returns a nullptr on …

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7 May 201821 April 2020

CException: Simple Exception Handling in C

CException is a project released by Throw The Switch. CException is designed to provide simple exception handling in C using the familiar try/catch/throw syntax. I've been recently thinking about the downsides of error logging, so I am excited to see a lightweight exception library for C. The exception implementation is kept simple by only allowing …

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3 May 201825 March 2021

A Warning When Using -fno-exceptions

As an embedded C++ developer, I typically write programs with exceptions disabled. My typical method for accomplishing this is by using the -fno-exceptions compiler flag. Unfortunately, I never realized a very important detail: even if I compile with -fno-exceptions, the C++ libraries I'm using have not been compiled with -fno-exceptions. In order to be truly …

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