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([2a0b:e7c0:0:107::aaaa:59]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id p13-20020a05640243cd00b0055c6048544fsm2331228edc.66.2024.01.23.22.53.13 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 23 Jan 2024 22:53:14 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 07:53:13 +0100 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: RE: [PATCH 00/45] C++: Convert the kernel to C++ Content-Language: en-US To: David Laight , 'Chris Down' , "H. 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I don't follow, you can catch() specific (e.g. ENotAdded) exceptions. > OTOH if add_foo_to_list() returns an error code you can know > (and check) that zero is returned iff the pointer has been saved. There is no difference between throwing exceptions (you can as well embed an error code in a generic exception, if you want) and throwing error numbers directly. A different question is whether we want exceptions (RTTI) in the kernel at all. Not sure about gcc, but for example LLVM does not. regards, -- js suse labs