Challenging GotW 66's moral
Hello everyone,
In GotW #66, one of the moral is the exception handler of constructor should
not do any like resource free task. I do not agree. Here is the quoated moral
and my code to prove this moral will have memory leak.
Anything wrong with my analysis?
http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/066.htm
Moral #1: Constructor function-try-block handlers have only one purpose --
to translate an exception. (And maybe to do logging or some other side
effects.) They are not useful for any other purpose.
[Code]
class A
{
private:
int* p;
public:
A()
try
{
p = new int[10];
// there are some other exceptions here
}
catch (bad_alloc)
{
// do not delete since bad_alloc means memory pointed by p is not
allocated
}
catch (...)
{
// if we do not delete p, there will be memory leak
// at this point, we are conflicting with Gotw 66's moral 1
if (p) delete[] p;
}
}
[/Code]
thanks in advance,
George
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