Re: Percentage of error checking code
On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 9:56:02 AM UTC, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
On Sun, 2013-02-24, Paavo Helde wrote:
Giuliano Bertoletti <gbe32241@libero.it> wrote in news:5129fcf7$0$26778
$4fafbaef@reader2.news.tin.it:
this might be a too generic or even an ill-posed problem,
but I'll try anyway.
Is there any study/document/pubblication which shows which
percentage of C++ code (measured in lines of code) is used
to perform error checking (validating parameters, catching
exceptions, etc.)?
This might actually be dependent on the application type,
but I would like to have some figures possibly per
application type (or other factors as well).
Probably depends most on the programming style, not on the
app type.
Not really. At least not in some cases.
Both. It can makes sense to say "we ignore memory allocation
failures" or "it's ok to lose state on I/O errors" in some
applications, but definitely not in others.
FWIW, in our codebase a typical error handling goes like:
if (check-a-condition) {
throw Exception(...);
}
The wc program tells me there is approximately one 'throw'
for each 100 lines
Ok, but throwing is less than half of the error handling.
I suspect that with error handling done really well, most of
the effort has gone into designing your objects so that stack
unwinding Does The Right Thing. You may not even recognize it
as "error handling code".
Most of the effort in error handling goes into deciding what is
an error, and how to detect it. In programs with input from
human sources, it's not rare for over half of the code, or more,
to be error checking.
As for designing your objects so that stack unwinding does the
right thing, that should be more or less an automatism for C++
programmers. Independently of exceptions, it generally results
in cleaner and more easily understood code.
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