Is it convention in gamedev to throw exceptions?

[Please-just-dont]

I tried compiling my project with -fno-exceptions, as apparently in gamedev this is a VERY common thing to do. I noticed that with Clang and GCC I couldn't compile it because there were a whole bunch of things in the RMLUI source files that threw various things. Is this normal? Would it be better if the throw expressions in RMLUI were replaced with either return codes or a simple std::terminate or abort?

[mikke89]

Hi. We don't use exceptions in the library, but we use RTTI in a few cases. You can disable this during building, see the option for RMLUI_CUSTOM_RTTI in the documentation: https://mikke89.github.io/RmlUiDoc/pages/cpp_manual/building_with_cmake.html#advanced-customization

We also use some thirdparty containers that have their own way of controlling exceptions. You can either opt out of these by disabling RMLUI_THIRDPARTY_CONTAINERS, or you can look into the exception configuration for the containers we use.