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From: ark@europa.att.com (Andrew Koenig)
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Subject: ANSI C++ and exceptions
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Gary Duzan says:

>    I am under the impression that ANSI rejected the exception handling
> mechanisms proposed in the ARM in favor of a mechanism similar to that
> used by g++. If this is true, then you may be better of just using g++
> exception handling as-is, since it should be reasonably similar to the
> ANSI standard.
>    Someone please correct me if I am wrong.

In its November 1990 meeting in Palo Alto, the ANSI C++ committee voted
to accept exception handling as proposed in the ARM.  It is possible,
of course, that this could change again -- as could anything in the
working draft -- but at this point the ARM version is in.