Re: try-catch destructor

From:
"Sheng Jiang[MVP]" <sheng_jiang@hotmail.com.discuss>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:57:49 -0500
Message-ID:
<#xUsk4$wHHA.4628@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>
If you use new , the object will be on the heap, not stack

--
Sheng Jiang
Microsoft MVP in VC++
"LarryW" <lwdaddio@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
news:VA.0000006c.017a425b@newsgroups.nospam...

One of our developers wrote the following test program:

  void CTest_TryCatchDlg::TestMemoryLeak()
  {
    try
    {
      Ctest *p = new CTest();
      WillThrowException();
      delete p;
    }
    catch(...)
    {
      OutputDebugString("Temp");
    }
  }

The CTest is just an empty object with a do-nothing constructor and
destructor. WillThrowException does just that. When we run it in the
debugger stepping into everything and with a break-point on the

destructor,

it never gets called and the debugger reports a memory leak (VS 6.0). It

was

my understanding that the try-catch mechanism would unwind the stack and

call

the destructor for 'p' and that 'p' is just on the stack and would go out

of

scope at the end of the block. Am I missing something real simple here?

:-)

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