Re: C++0x

From:
Alberto Ganesh Barbati <AlbertoBarbati@libero.it>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Fri, 30 May 2008 07:56:37 CST
Message-ID:
<pZP%j.324015$%k.409031@twister2.libero.it>
Triple-DES ha scritto:

Another possible solution is:

struct finally{};
void f()
{
   try
   {
      //...
      try
      {
        //...
      }
      catch(const SomeException&)
      {
        //...
      }
      //...
      throw finally();
   }
   catch(...)
   {
     // emulates finally
   }
}


This is not a good solution, however, because it incurs the cost of
throwing an exception even in the "no-exception-thrown" case and that
any exception thrown by inner try-block is caught even if the intent
would be to let it pass. The correct code is:

void f()
{
    try
    {
       ... // block contents here (may include try-blocks or not)

       // finally block here
    }
    catch(...)
    {
       // finally block here (again)
       throw; // rethrow exception
    }
}

as you can see, there is an unfortunate code duplication that makes this
approach not very appealing.

The newly introduced C++0x exception propagation facility may suggest a
different approach, which unfortunately is currently ill-formed and
*will remain* ill-formed. I report it here just to provide an insight
about how a finally block could be implemented in C++:

void f()
{
    try
    {
       // block contents here

       goto finally; // illegal!
    }
    catch(...)
    {
    finally:
       // finally block here

       if (exception_ptr e = current_exception())
       {
          rethrow_exception(e);
       }
    }
}

HTH,

Ganesh

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