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Re:When noexcept? by coezbek on Thursday December 15, 2016 @06:31PM (#13189716)
Haha, tell that to the user who did not get his work saved because the programming language terminates the program. All because the programmer made a mistake of defining code noexcept when in reality an exception was thrown.

noexcept is a bullshit feature if you care about stability

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Re:When noexcept? by gpderetta on Thursday December 15, 2016 @08:15PM (#13190294)
An assertion failure or unhandled exception is the last of your worries: segfaults, external kills, power loss, etc are all more likely.

A program that loses user data on a crash (any crash), is just not designed for reliability, period.

A reliable program will probably use transactional storage and periodic checkpoints.

Look-up "crash only software".

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