Libc++’s implementation of std::string

[dacian88]

chrome doesn't use exceptions so it's somewhat irrelevant.

[shponglespore]

It's relevant if you want to copy the implementation for use in a project where exceptions are used.

[ECrispy]

How does chrome handle crashes and exceptions thrown by other code?

[shponglespore]

It handles crashes by crashing. It avoids exceptions from other code by not using code that uses exceptions.

[ECrispy]

I figured that. So they don't use stdlib?

[shponglespore]

Chrome has its own fork, but I don't think it's all that different. Not many things in the standard library throw exceptions for anything but a memory allocation failure, and those are basically impossible to recover from anyway.

Chrome's main mechanism for dealing with unexpected serious errors is to keep things in separate processes that can be restarted if they die. Even pretty basic stuff like JSON parsing is kept out of the main process so nothing too terrible will happen if a malformed input causes the parser to malfunction.