[surajrmal]

I would also expect it to depend on whether or not you have exceptions enabled. Half the ecosystem has them disabled.

[pjmlp]

I really hate that, and believe if they would have been there since the beginning, the split would not have happened as the option to disable them would not exist in first place.

It was introduced for historical compatibility reasons, it is not officially supported on the standard, but some folks really keep on using non-standard language, spitting the libraries ecosystem.

[danhor]

It's often a requirement for bare metal embedded development (too heavy in terms of memory), so it's basically unavoidable. Non-standard languages are very common for this kind of thing, just look at the linux-flavoured C.