Problems with exit prototype including throw()

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Sat Oct 14 15:25:00 GMT 2000


Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> writes:

> I'm not sure if the right way is to fix all those crapy programs or if it
> would not be easier to just kill the __THROW on exit.

I cannot remember anymore why the __THROW was added.  Symmetry alone
is probably not the reason.  I will have to look at the C++ standard.

In any case, all program which have prototypes for standard functions
are broken.

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