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Re:Current hardware trends make C++ exceptions harder to jus... by gumby on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @03:56PM (#30446333)
That might work. It would be yet another thing that would slow down compilation (link phase in this case) but not the worst.

Compilers would have to generate both forms forever (except for new architectures) but probably that wouldn’t be terrible.

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Re:Current hardware trends make C++ exceptions harder to jus... by atq2119 on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @05:50PM (#30447697)
It only took ~two decades to remove a.out support from the Linux kernel :)

(I wonder when software engineers will more commonly think about their work on a generational time scale. Like how the cathedral builders of old must have thought about their work...)

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