Re: Basic question C++ exception
On Jun 29, 2:55 pm, Erik Wikstr=F6m <Erik-wikst...@telia.com> wrote:
On 2008-06-29 20:28, Vijay wrote:
On Jun 29, 12:41 pm, Erik Wikstr=F6m <Erik-wikst...@telia.com> wrote:
On 2008-06-29 17:34, Vijay wrote:
Question 2.
class A
{
public:
A(){cout<<"In Constructor\n";}
A(const A&){cout<<"In Copy Constructor\n";}
~A(){cout<<"In Destructor\n";}
};
try{
cout<<"In Try\n";
throw A();
}
catch(A a)
{
cout<<"In Catch\n";
}
output:
In Try;
In Constructor
In Copy Constructor
In Catch
In Destructor
In Destructor
Why object created by throw A() has not been deleted while exiting t=
ry
block in above code?
The object created by thow can not be destroyes before it has been use=
d
to initialise the object in the exception-handler (the extra copy has
been eliminated). It will also live until the last exception handler h=
as
run (if the object is destroyed and you re-throw what would happen
then?), so it is the last destructor to run.
If I comment out the copy-constructor my compiler does not optimise aw=
ay
the extra copy and I get the following result:
In Try
In Constructor // throw A(), followed by a copy-constructor
In Destructor // The object created by A() is destroyed
In Catch // a in the catch(A a) is copy-constructe=
d first
In Destructor // The object created in the handler is destr=
oyes
In Destructor // The exception object dies
Thanks. I think, because of compiler optimization, i am getting
confused.
one more point: in your above result, i didnt get two lines
In Destructor // The object created by A() is destroyed
and
In Destructor // The exception object dies
object created by A() is exception object. right?
If no, then when exception object is created which dies in last line?
No, the exception object is a copy of the object created by A(), unless
the compiler uses the optimisation, in which case the exception-object
and the object created by A() is the same (and in that case it will no
be destroyed until the end of the exception-handler).
Got it. Thanks :)
--
Erik Wikstr=F6m
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