Re: is such exception handling approach good?
"George" <George@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hi Ben,
oops, it can't either.
http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/066.htm
which statements do you mean in this article mentioned we can not use try
and catch block in constructor to free resources if there are any
exceptions
in constructor? I can not find. And it is appreciated if you could point
out.
A function-try block is different from a try block inside the function.
:-)
regards,
George
"Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]" wrote:
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"George" <George@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Thanks Alex,
Unless the caller of the constructor catches the exceptions and
take
appropriate operations to free the resources/memory, right?
Do you mean author of the constructor? Caller of the constructor
is a code that creates an object.
I mean the caller of the constructor. If the caller can catch the
exception
in the constructor, and take appropriate operations to free resources,
I
think it is fine to throw exceptions in constructor. Is my
understanding
correct?
The caller of the constructor cannot free the resources, because he
hasn't
got a pointer to them (constructor failed and the pointer to the new
object was never set).
Only a function-try block on the constructor can free the resources.
oops, it can't either.
http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/066.htm
regards,
George
"Alex Blekhman" wrote:
"George" wrote:
I think if you are not using smart pointers, for the object
instances which
are already constructed on the heap, they will not be released
automatically
and there will be potential memory leak, right?
Correct.
Unless the caller of the constructor catches the exceptions and
take
appropriate operations to free the resources/memory, right?
Do you mean author of the constructor? Caller of the constructor
is a code that creates an object.
Alex
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