Re: Exception handling for new

From:
"Adeel" <dontWantSpam@All>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Fri, 2 Jun 2006 00:28:45 +0500
Message-ID:
<en3ezGbhGHA.836@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>
Wow... amazing insight Joe man. You rule....!

Using CArray certainly looks like a better idea... I'll look into it.

Thanks again
Cheers,
Adeel

"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@flounder.com> wrote in message
news:dp2s72h8l37ctter7v6urmqbaui4o6ufa6@4ax.com...

No. It will probably fail in some fairly fascinating ways.
Fortunately, in the debug
version, if new throws a CMemoryException it will crash nicely
trying to delete the object
at 0xCCCCCCCC. You would have to write

int * p = NULL;

Note that there is no need to call delete because if the allocation
succeeded, the
exception isn't taken, and if the exception is taken, the value of p
is not defined unless
you've done the above line, in which case the corresponding line in
your catch handler is
unnecessary.

int * p = NULL;
try {
     p = new int[10];
    }
catch(CMemoryException * emex)
   {
    emex->Delete();
   }

presumably after this point you are checking to see if p is
non-NULL.

Note that this requires that eventually you need to delete the array
of ints. This is
dangerous, in that you could do something that bypasses the
deallocation. I prefer to
write

CArray<int, int>p;
p.SetSize(10);

(Note that you would need to add a try/catch around the SetSize).
This way, when the
array goes out of scope, the storage is automatically freed. If you
need an int *, you
can just do p.GetData(), which returns you an int * to the actual
int array.
Alternatively, you could use std::vector.
joe
On Tue, 30 May 2006 03:48:05 +0500, "Adeel" <dontWantSpam@All>
wrote:

Hello,

I was wondering what is the usual practice for exception handling
with
the new operator.

For example...,
<code>

int *p;
try {
   p = new int[10];
}

catch (EMemoryException *emex) {
   delete [] p;
   p = NULL;
   emex->Delete;
}

</code>

Would this piece of code work with all sorts of memory allocation
errors and ensure a safe way of using the dynamically allocated
memory?

Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
email: newcomer@flounder.com
Web: http://www.flounder.com
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