Re: Exception handling the right way

From:
James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 9 Sep 2008 06:05:37 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<ada6b2e3-bb39-4b9b-96e0-a9299ffba756@z72g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>
On Sep 9, 12:25 pm, Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nos...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

On 9 Sep, 10:15, Bart Friederichs <b...@tbwb.nl> wrote:

Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

int main() {
 std::auto_ptr<A> a(new A);
 std::auto_ptr<B> b(new B);
 std::auto_ptr<C> c(new C);
 return 0;
}


This terminates when B() throws, simply adding the try-catch
around it seems to fix that.


the whole point is to avoid a try-catch!


There's no point in using exceptions if you don't have a
try/catch somewhere. Typically, the main function is the place,
at least in single threaded applications.

What do you mean it terminates? The program will terminate
whether new B throws or not.


But it will not terminate in the same manner.

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