Re: Lua error handling and C++

[Rici Lake <lua@...>]

On 16-Oct-06, at 1:49 PM, Glenn Maynard wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 11:31:28AM -0700, Sam Roberts wrote:
> > Can't the C++ code catch all exceptions, and re-raise with 
> > lua_error()?
>
> The problem is that C++ exceptions bloat executables too much to be
> practical to leave enabled in many cases.  The use of a 150k library
> requiring enabling an option that would bloat my binary by over 1MB
> means it's effectively a 1.15MB library.

You only have to catch exceptions if they might be thrown. If you're 
not using exceptions, and you're using no c++ library which uses 
exceptions, then there's no problem, surely?