but to me these are - again - a user induced problems. I'm interested if a user doesn't do stupid things, should they still afraid that a standard extern C code could throw? Say, std::sprintf() which if I'm not mistaken boils down to C directly? Are there cases where C std lib could throw without a "help from a user"?
I don't think anything in the C parts of the C++ standard library throws its own exceptions. However, it's not completely unreasonable for a third party C library to use a C++ library underneath, and that might propagate any exceptions that the C++ side throws. This would be especially true if the C library were designed with some kind of plugin support, and someone supplied a C++ plugin.
