__THROW → __NOEXCEPT
Florian Weimer
fweimer@redhat.com
Tue Jun 4 16:34:59 GMT 2024
* Paul Eggert:
> On 2024-06-04 05:39, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * Adhemerval Zanella Netto:
>>
>>>> (Who decided __THROW means "doesn't throw" ?)
>>> That is an excellent question...
>> It stands for throw(), the old version of the C++ noexcept specifier
>> which could also contain an explicit exception list.
>
> Would anyone object to renaming __THROW to __NOEXCEPT? C++11 renamed
> 'throw' to 'noexcept' and C++20 removed 'throw', so using __NOEXCEPT
> would make headers more readable to today's users.
I'm not sure if it's worth the update churn, but please make it
__NOEXCEPT_LEAF and use __NOEXCEPT for for __THROWNL.
And we really can't remove the old macros, they are widely used.
Thanks,
Florian
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