[krona]

Historically the Android platform provided only a very minimal C++ runtime support library, with no RTTI or C++ exceptions.

[pjmlp]

STL and exceptions are available since Android NDK Revision 5, released in December 2010, alongside Android 2.3.

https://developer.android.com/ndk/downloads/revision_history...

How can it be historically, when the features are available since almost 7 years?

[krona]

Um, but the STLport in r5 wasn't compatible with exceptions or RTTI. It says so in CPLUSPLUS-SUPPORT.html

[pjmlp]

There were other ones to choose from.