Coverity tool

Nick Sabalausky a at a.a
Wed Feb 10 04:57:10 PST 2010


"Michel Fortin" <michel.fortin at michelf.com> wrote in message 
news:hkt3gq$19pp$1 at digitalmars.com...
> On 2010-02-09 19:26:05 -0500, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> said:
>
>> Walter Bright:
>>> I don't know why Google proscribes exceptions,
>>
>> If you look at that link, and you click on the arrow, you will see a nice 
>> list of pro-cons :-)
>
> And below the pro-cons it says they avoid exceptions because they have a 
> lot of exception-unsafe code that would break if you were to throw 
> exceptions, suggesting it might be otherwise if it wasn't for that legacy 
> code.
>

It doesn't just suggest it, it flat-out states it:
"Things would probably be different if we had to do it all over again from 
scratch." 





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