Re: try-catch destructor
If you use new , the object will be on the heap, not stack
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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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