Should C functions automatically be nothrow?

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Le 07/02/2012 03:04, Jonathan M Davis a écrit :
> Can C functions throw? I don't know of any way that a C function could throw.
> Is it possible if you have a C function which calls a D function or something
> like that? I don't know. I wouldn't really expect the C function to be able to
> handle the D exception, in which case, it wouldn't end up throwing the
> exception to whatever code calls it.
>
> Assuming that C functions can't throw, is there any reason _not_ to have the
> compiler automatically treat C functions as nothrow?
>
> If we can't treat C funtions in general as nothrow (for whatever reason that
> may be), is there a reason why we can't explicitly mark the various C bindings
> in druntime as nothrow at the very least?
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

extern(C) goes in both directions. D can call C, but C can call D. And D 
can throw exceptions. So you can end up with extern(C) function that 
throw exceptions.