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-Why we don't use exceptions in our code
-As told by Mike Shaver to Dave Liebreich, 5-Dec-2005
-some of the reasons exceptions are not used are:
-* problems with older compilers' implementation of exceptions.  This reason will go away as we drop support for older compilers over time.
-* problems with exceptions that have to cross boundaries between C, C++, and/or XPCOM.
-* lots of the existing code is not exception-safe.
-C++ templates are slowly being adopted, so it's not like we never use different stuff.
-[[category:mozilla History|exceptions]]