Re: Exception handling the right way
On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:48:29 +0200, Bart Friederichs <bf@tbwb.nl> wrote:
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;
}
Which results in a runtime error when B's contructor throws an
exception. How to correctly free resources on the heap in exception
handling?
Usually you can side-step this.
int main()
{
A a;
B b;
C c;
exit 0;
}
Or if there is some extraordinary reason you have to new them, maybe
their lifetime fits into an object? I find this is often the case.
class MeaningfulSomething {
public:
MeaningfulSomething(args)
: a_(new A()),
b_(new B()),
c_(new C())
{}
~MeaningfulSomething() { delete ... }
A * const a_;
B * const b_;
C * const c_;
};
/Jorgen
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