Exceptional C++ Style 40 New Engineering Puzzles, Programming Problems, and Solutions

Part . Exception Safety Issues and Techniques

Exception handling is a fundamental error reporting mechanism in modern languages, including C++. In Exceptional C++ [Sutter00] and More Exceptional C++ [Sutter02] we considered in detail many issues related to defining what exception safety is, how to go about writing exception-safe code, and language issues and interactions to be aware of.

In this section, we continue to build on that material by turning our attention to some specific exception-related language features. We begin by answering some perennial questions: Is exception safety all about writing try and catch in the right places? If not, then what? And what kinds of things should you consider when developing an exception safety policy for ...