Re: Handle C++ exception and structured exception together

From:
"Alf P. Steinbach" <alfps@start.no>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:23:46 +0100
Message-ID:
<13pisfe2sev5s1f@corp.supernews.com>
* Pavel:

anon wrote:

George2 wrote:

Hello everyone,

I am learning set_se_translator, and there are some good resources
about how to translate structured exception into C++ exception, like,

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/seexception.aspx


LOL
this code looks like coming from a clown:

catch(CSeException *e)
{
  e->ReportError(MB_OK | MB_ICONSTOP);
  e->Delete();
}

Wondering what they do in Delete() method. Hope not "delete this"


I thought "delete this" was not bad-bad, although certainly not ideal.
Sometimes there is no good alternative to at least indirect "delete
this" or its equivalent ... or I simply do not know one. Do you?


The problem is mostly that with an exception there's no designated
"owner" that's responsible for deleting. And with a catch(...) you have
a memory leak. The code above is based on MFC exceptions, which were a
pre-standard hack to use exceptions in a language implementation that
didn't support exceptions.

Cheers, & hth.,

- Alf

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