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Re: Disable -std=c++17 "ISO C++1z does not allow dynamic exception specifications"?
On 21 February 2017 at 14:55, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> On 21 February 2017 at 14:51, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 03:44:17PM +0100, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
>>> There is no flag to suppress that error or demote it to a warning, is there?
>>> Could be useful when adapting large code bases to C++17 incrementally.
>>
>> It is a warning in C++11/C++14 now, so compile with -std=c++14 and
>> incrementally fix all those warnings, then switch over to -std=c++17?
>>
>> -std=c++17 also turns on P0012R1 (noexcept part of the typesystem), so not
>> sure what would the deprecated dynamic exception specification mean
>> together with that (we shouldn't be adding new mangling for the dynamic
>> exception specification etc.).
>
> We absolutely shouldn't add new mangling, but it could simply mean
> noexcept(false).
>
> An exception specification that says "this can throw X, Y and Z" means
> it can throw.
>
> I'm not proposing we do that though, I want dynamic exception
> specifications to go away ASAP :-) I'm surprised who are trying C++17
s/who are/people who are/
> didn't get the memo 10+ years ago that they were broken and useless.