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Date:      Fri, 6 Oct 2017 09:04:53 -0700
From:      Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org>
To:        Mark Millard <markmi@dsl-only.net>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: C++ in jemalloc
Message-ID:  <CAG6CVpU5Rm87TS=oj_iq_de4POFMiA_NvS8Z_naHb02TnVpOEg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 9:58 PM, Mark Millard <markmi@dsl-only.net> wrote:
> Luckily most kernel and world code that I actively use
> does not throw C++ exceptions in my use.
>
> But devel/kyua is majorly broken by the C++ exception
> issue: It makes extensive use of C++ exceptions. In my
> view that disqualifies clang as being "close": I view
> my activity as a hack until devel/kyua is generally
> operable and so available for use in testing.

I don't think that is a major roadblock; a broken port is a broken
port.  Kyua is a relatively unimportant one for most users.  In this
particular case, maybe kyua (a leaf binary) could be built with GCC
instead of Clang on any platform with broken C++ exceptions.

Best,
Conrad



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