Re: Challenging GotW 66's moral
On 2007-12-27 07:54, George2 wrote:
Hello everyone,
In GotW #66, one of the moral is the exception handler of constructor
should not do any like resource free task. I do not agree. Here is the
quoated moral and my code to prove this moral will have memory leak.
Anything wrong with my analysis?
http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/066.htm
Moral #1: Constructor function-try-block handlers have only one
purpose -- to translate an exception. (And maybe to do logging or some
other side effects.) They are not useful for any other purpose.
[Code]
class A
{
private:
int* p;
public:
A()
try
{
p = new int[10];
// there are some other exceptions here
}
catch (bad_alloc)
{
// do not delete since bad_alloc means memory pointed by p is
not allocated
}
catch (...)
{
// if we do not delete p, there will be memory leak
// at this point, we are conflicting with Gotw 66's moral 1
if (p) delete[] p;
}
}
[/Code]
The advice assumes that you follow other advices, such as using RAII and
writing exception safe code, if you did you would never end up in a
situation where you need to free any memory in a catch-block. One
example of that would be to replace p with a smart-pointer.
--
Erik Wikstr?m
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