[Bug c++/98861] I want deterministic exceptions (Herbception)

[unlvsur at live dot com]

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98861

--- Comment #17 from cqwrteur <unlvsur at live dot com> ---
(In reply to Jonathan Wakely from comment #15)
> > > (In reply to cqwrteur from comment #12)
> > > > stdio.h should not get included in any circumstances for EH. You are
> > > > implementing the operating system, but you need to enable EH by the standard
> > > > and EH relies on stdio. Chicken-egg problem.
> > > 
> > > It doesn't depend on stdio though. What are you talking about?
> > 
> > https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/
> > e11e5d3889f9e54c547efee50fa1b72b50f0f265/libstdc%2B%2B-v3/libsupc%2B%2B/
> > vterminate.cc#L93
> 
> Which is disabled in freestanding, and can be optionally disabled in hosted.
> 
> This is an OPTIONAL feature of libstdc++, not something that exception
> handling intrinsically relies on. If you don't want it, you don't have to
> use it.
> 
> And if you're implementing the OS then you're using freestanding and it's
> automatically disabled. Looks at line 27 in that file.
> 
> Once again you are talking out of your backside.
> 
> Stop wasting our time.

No one wants to tweak around compiler options since compiler options can always
break something tbh.

There is a reason why C++ is terrible in embedded systems and bare-metal
operating systems.

What Linus said was totally correct from a kernel dev perspective.