Exceptions in the Real World

Sometimes for good reasons, and sometimes for bad, exception handling isn't always present in code you need to make use of. If you're dealing with a C API, or code that runs in a managed environment, exceptions aren't necessarily an option. Yet you know exceptions are your error-handling mechanism of choice. What's the best way to approach this problem? As Gigi Sayfan explains in "Practical C++ Error Handling in Hybrid Environments," a big part of the solution is picking your battles intelligently.

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