Re: Unhandled Exception Question

From:
Michael Doubez <michael.doubez@free.fr>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Mon, 4 Oct 2010 03:30:54 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
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On 4 oct, 05:21, Immortal Nephi <Immortal_Ne...@hotmail.com> wrote:

        I looked at vector's header. I only see that there i=

s only throw in

some functions, but they don't have try / catch block.
        If try / catch block is not written, then throw will be e=

xecuted to

the operating system directly to trigger unhandled exception.
Correct?


Not exactly.
If no handler is found, std::terminate() is called.

It the exception if thrown from a object's constructor/destructor
whith static storage duration, the exceptions are not caught.

        If you want to use exception handler, you will include ex=

ception's

header.


Not necessarily. You can also catch all exceptions:
catch(...){
  // all exceptions
}

For example

#include <exception>

try {
        vector< int > v;
        v.push_back( 1 );
        v.push_back( 2 );
        v.push_back( 3 );

        v.at( 4 ) = 5;}

catch ( exception &e ) {
        cerr << =93Error: =93 << e.what() << endl;

}

        Is my example above correct?


Apart from the missing 'main' enclosing the code, missing #include
<vector> and I assume a using namespace std somewhere; yes.

 It triggers an exception handler to
report that subscript is out of range.


It triggers an exception and search for a matching exception handler.
Upon entering the exception handler, the stack is unwound.

        Without try / catch block, unhandled exception is always =

triggered

when at() throws subscript out of range.


It triggers an exception and search for a matching exception handler
and doesn't find any. You would also have an unhandled exception with
the following code:
try {
        vector< int > v;
       // ...
        v.at( 4 ) = 5;
}
catch ( int e ) {
        cerr << =93Error: =93 << e << endl;
}

It is implementation defined whether stack is unwound when calling
std::terminate().

By the way, there is no unhandled exception mechanism to trigger.
AFAIK the message you have is part of the implementation of your
compiler and is not mentioned in the standard.

--
Michael

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