Google C++ style guide's No-exceptions rule; STL?

Question

Google\'s C++ style guide says \"We do not use exceptions\". The style does not mention STL with respect to usage of exception. Since STL allocators can fail, how do they ha

Answer 1

They say that they don't use exceptions, not that nobody should use them. If you look at the rationale they also write:

Because most existing C++ code at Google is not prepared to deal with exceptions, it is comparatively difficult to adopt new code that generates exceptions.

The usual legacy problem. :-(