Re: [xml] -fexceptions

[Graham Bennett <graham-libxml simulcra org>]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 11:23:17AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:21:29PM +0100, Graham Bennett wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there an easy way to enable the -fexceptions flag for gcc when
> > building libxml?  If not, I think it would be worth adding to the
> > configure script (e.g. --with-exceptions).  It would be very useful to
> > be able to throw from SAX callbacks when using libxml from C++.
>
>   Okay, I did look at this. I did some checks:

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>   I'm afraid that taking a 10+% hit on code size is a bit hard to justify

quite right

> so I simply added this as an option to configure:
>
> gnome:~/XML -> ./configure --help | grep exception
>   --with-fexceptions      add GCC flag -fexceptions for C++ exceptions (off)
> gnome:~/XML ->
>
>   which is kept off by default. I hope it's sufficient. It's in CVS now,

yep that's great, thanks very much.

-- 
Graham Bennett