Re: Exception handling the right way
"Bart Friederichs" <bf@tbwb.nl> wrote in message
news:48c63859$0$186$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl...
anon wrote:
I like this explanation:
http://www.boost.org/community/error_handling.html
Thanks for the pointers, and I started a little experimenting. Soon I
ran into this problem:
int main () {
A *a; B *b; C *c;
try {
a = new A();
b = new B();
c = new C();
} catch (...) {
delete a;
delete b;
delete c;
}
return 0;
}
there are some errors here... Simple fix:
int main() {
A* a = NULL;
B* b = NULL;
C* c = NULL;
try {
a = new A;
b = new B;
c = new C;
} catch(...) {
delete a;
delete b;
delete c;
}
return 0;
}
or, even better:
int main() {
std::auto_ptr<A> a(new A);
std::auto_ptr<B> b(new B);
std::auto_ptr<C> c(new C);
return 0;
}
Which results in a runtime error when B's contructor throws an
exception. How to correctly free resources on the heap in exception
handling?
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