nothrow by default

[Paulo Pinto]

On Thursday, 9 January 2020 at 14:16:38 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 9 January 2020 at 13:45:44 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> As posted in another comment, C++/WinRT and Android NDK are 
>> two such C++ setups.
>
> I don't use NDK, but the documentation states clearly that it 
> only supports new and delete for historic reasons:
>
> «C++ exceptions are supported by libc++, but they are disabled 
> by default in ndk-build. This is because historically C++ 
> exceptions were not available in the NDK. CMake and standalone 
> toolchains have C++ exceptions enabled by default.»
>
> https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/cpp-support

Ah, the Android documentation, where Medium posts by Google 
employees and twitter posts, and back in the day G+ posts, are 
more up to date than the actual documentation.

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/ndk/+/ndk-r14-release/CHANGELOG.md

"RTTI and exceptions are now on by default. This was done for 
improved compatibility with existing CMake projects. See 
https://github.com/android-ndk/ndk/issues/212."