Re: Exception throwing and guarentees about execution order
On 1 f=E9v, 10:12, "Dick Brown" <inva...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
As far as I understand 11.6 (6) of the Ada 95 Reference
Manual, Ada implementations may "lose" information, where
exactly an exception has been raised. I'm not sure whether I
understand Ada in that regard, but that's off-topic anyways
(if someone wants to correct me there, I'd be grateful
nonetheless).
Something like:
try
{
int i = 0;
if (...) throw(i);
int i = 1;
if (...) throw(i);
int i = 2;
}
catch (...)
{
// i may be 0 or 1 or 2, no matter which throw(i) has brought us here
}
Now the real question: Does C++ have any similar provisions?
I've found nothing in the standard, am I right there?
It's hard to say. The above won't compile in C++, so we can't
begin to speak about the behavior it might have. If you change
it to:
int i ;
try {
i = 0 ;
if ( ... ) throw i ;
i = 1 ;
if ( ... ) throw i ;
i = 2 ;
} catch ( ... ) {
}
Then in the catch block, i will have a value of 0 if the first
throw occurred, and a value of 1 if the second occurred. (I'm
not sure about Ada, but I imagine that a lot of languages don't
offer this guarantee---it has a decidedly negative impact on
optimization.)
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