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Re: [SG16-Unicode] It’s Time to Stop Adding New Features for Non-Unicode Execution Encodings in C++

From: R. Martinho Fernandes <rmf_at_[hidden]>
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 13:38:06 +0200
>In my Overton Window herbceptions are already in the standard and
>everybody is happy about their performance. Wishful thinking, I know.
>But we'll see.

I think there is a consideration against defaulting to exceptions where none of this stuff matters because it's a fundamental problem agnostic of any implementation: defaulting to exceptions on things that are likely to deal with external input is defaulting to the creation of denial-of-service vulnerabilities.

Received on 2019-04-27 13:38:17