[LLVMdev] LLVM use of C++ exceptions and RTTI

[Francois Pichet]

In that case, RTTI and exception should also be disabled from CMake
generated projects right?
Currently they are enabled all over my MSVC projects.

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:57 AM, Duncan Sands <baldrick at free.fr> wrote:
> Hi Al,
>
>> It's good that llvm/lib builds with exceptions and RTTI disabled as it
>> supports doing optimization and codegen on very constrained platforms.
>> Judging by REQUIRES_EH in makefiles, only a few bits like TableGen, llvm-ar
>> and llvm-ranlib need them, and I doubt these would need to run on a target.
>> It's unlikely exceptions would get in in a random patch, because it would
>> have to change the makefile; but even so, it would be useful to know that
>> it's due to a definite design rule (assuming that's the case).
>> Maybe this could be added to http://llvm.org/docs/CodingStandards.html ?
>
> yes, it's a definite design rule.  Can you please send a doc patch for
> CodingStandards with some appropriate text in it.
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Duncan.
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