Re: catch exception
On Aug 22, 2:15 pm, junw2...@gmail.com wrote:
class A
{
public:
A()
{
try
{
p = new int;
//Other lines that may throw exception.
}
catch(...)
{
delete p;
}
private:
int *p;
};
In the above code, catch the exception in A's constructor to delete p.
Is it OK? Is there a better way to delete p?
Yes it's OK (modulo the missing closing brace), but better is:
class A
{
public:
A() : p(new int(0))
{
// do other stuff which may throw
}
private:
some_smart_pointer_type<int> p;
};
Now if that stuff throws, the smart pointer for p will be destroyed,
which will delete p.
Pick your smart pointer -- see boost and tr1. Or, if you know this
object won't be getting copied, or you have a deep copy constructor,
you could use std::auto_ptr
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