Re: Solution for: throwing exception classes explicitly

From:
Fei Liu <feiliu@aepnetworks.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 08 May 2007 14:05:16 -0400
Message-ID:
<f1qe4h$o2h$1@aioe.org>
nospam_news@wanano.net wrote:

Thank you Keith Halligan.

To keep the information in the signatures, we now use an empty
declarative substitute, so the developer can see from the header, what
he might have to catch.

#include "iostream"

#if ( GCC_VERSION > 30000 )
# define declare_throw(Exception) throw(Exception)
#else
# define declare_throw(Exception)
#endif

class Exception {
 public:
  Exception(int);
  void setErrNo(int i) declare_throw(Exception);
  int errNo;
};

Exception::Exception(int e) {
  errNo=e;
}

void Exception::setErrNo(int i) declare_throw(Exception) {
 auto Exception methodException(2);
  errNo=i;
  throw(methodException);
};

int main(char argc, char *argv[], char *env[]) {
  try {
   auto Exception mainException(1);
    mainException.setErrNo(42);
  } catch (Exception caughtException) {
    std::cout << "caught caughtException:" << caughtException.errNo <<
std::endl;
  }
}


This is a good practical solution. Did you try throw(Exception *)? Or is
  that something not allowed in C++? I belive you can throw string,
integer etc. So you could throw a string message as well.

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