Re: exception and global variable

From:
"Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]" <rbv@nospam.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:50:02 -0600
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"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org> wrote in message
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"George" <George@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Bjarne mentioned in his book, that there is no way to catch
exceptions from the initialization of global variables (section
14.7). But I do not think it is true, because we can add function try
block to its constructor, and catch appropriate types of exceptions
or using catch(...) to catch all exceptions.


Well, if a function catches all exceptions internally, then it doesn't
throw. What a function does internally is its own business - what's
important is whether an exception can emanate from it.


A function-try block can handle an exception, but always rethrows.

The book of course talks about constructors that actually throw
exceptions.
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