Re: howto catch nothing?
petke wrote:
I tried to catch a exeption by reference and
modify it, but it seems the exception gets thrown by value anyway. Am I
missing something, or maybe exceptions and references just dont mix?
int i = 0;
try {
int &ex = i;
ex++;
throw ex;
} catch(int &ex) { //i=1, ex=1
try {
ex++;
throw; //re-throw
} catch(int &ex) { //i=1, ex=2
ex++;//"catched re-trow"
} //i=1, ex=3
}
When you "throw ex;" it makes a copy of the value you are throwing (if
I remember correctly, using the copy constructor). Thereafter, in the
catch blocks, "ex" is a reference to the copy, so you can modify it if
you wish.
The reason the copy is made is that the original object may not exist,
as in:
try {
int i;
int& ex(i);
throw ex;
}
catch (int& ex) {
// i no longer exists; ex must not refer to it.
}
Bob
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