C++ exception code size / recommended practice

[Jason Merrill]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 01:20:32 +0200, Tim Jansen <ml@tjansen.de> wrote:

> Are there any hopes to make the overhead smaller on 3.x gccs? Is a throws() 
> clause in the declaration recommended or not? It would be desirable for API 
> documentation purposes and a paper claimed that empty throws() decreases the 
> code size in VisualC++, but with gcc I noticed another small increase.
> Or, possibly, could the reason for the increase be that the app uses a 
> -fno-exceptions library (Qt) extensively?

The -fno-enforce-exception-specs flag should improve the code size with
throw() specs.

Jason