Re: throw()

From:
Richard Herring <junk@[127.0.0.1]>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:25:47 +0100
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In message
<86ed9a26-12dc-4217-8d15-daffa664a9eb@u12g2000prd.googlegroups.com>,
"Samant.Trupti@gmail.com" <Samant.Trupti@gmail.com> writes

On Apr 29, 5:49?pm, Roland Mueller <roland.em0...@googlemail.com>
wrote:

On Apr 29, 3:32 pm, "Samant.Tru...@gmail.com"

<Samant.Tru...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

?bool CControlDrvInstance::IsRebootRequired() const throw()
In this code what is throw() do? ?I just have slight knowledge that is
a exception handler but how does it work.


Empty throw() declares that the function is not expected to throw any
exceptions. If it nevertheless does, abort() is called and the
exception cannot be catched from client code using the function.

If I have this in my code do I need to include "try catch" block? ?If
yes why?


Ohhh ok. So it is like "on error resume next" in VB right?


Wrong.

Is that mean we cannot have "try catch" in that function?


No. It may even mean that you _need_ a catch block:

It's a promise by the function to its caller, that nothing it does will
propagate an exception outside the function. In the body of the function
there may very well be a try-catch block, if it has to call other
functions that don't give that guarantee.

--
Richard Herring

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