Re: How to make this exception-safe

From:
Triple-DES <DenPlettfrie@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:10:55 CST
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On 19 Nov, 22:28, Yechezkel Mett <ymett.on.use...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Nov 18, 8:43 pm, Triple-DES <DenPlettf...@gmail.com> wrote:

[snip]

How would you go about making an exception-safe version of V::V()?
This is what I could come up with:

// 1st attempt
#include <memory>

V::V() {
   v_.reserve(3);

   std::auto_ptr<C> c1( new C(2) );
   std::auto_ptr<C> c2( new C(1) );
   std::auto_ptr<C> c3( new C(3) );

   v_.push_back( c1.release() );
   v_.push_back( c2.release() );
   v_.push_back( c3.release() );
}

Which is tedious if you are inserting more objects. Does anyone have a
better solution?
PS! boost/tr1 shared_ptr or similar can not be used.


Why not? (It's important to know what constraints we are working
under.)

I would suggest using a container which holds pointers and manages
lifetimes -- boost has a few under the name Pointer Container.


Sorry, it is essential that it is written entirely in Standard C+
+(03).

Otherwise:

namespace
{
  std::auto_ptr<C> new_C(int n) { return std::auto_ptr<C>(n); }

}

V::V() {
   std::auto_ptr<C> a[] = {
      new_C(2),
      new_C(1),
      new_C(3)
   };

   const size_t count = sizeof a / sizeof a[0]

   v_.reserve(count);
   std::transform(a, a + count, std::back_inserter(v_),
      boost::bind(&std::auto_ptr<C>::release, _1));

}


This looks like a solid solution. I would of course have to use the
standard binders.

[I took the liberty of snipping the try/catch example, since it is
worse than the other two, IMHO]

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