The C++ Programming Language, 4th Edition

13. Exception Handling

Don’t interrupt me while I’m interrupting.

– Winston S. Churchill

• Error Handling

Exceptions; Traditional Error Handling; Muddling Through; Alternative Views of Exceptions; When You Can’t Use Exceptions; Hierarchical Error Handling; Exceptions and Efficiency

• Exception Guarantees

• Resource Management

Finally

• Enforcing Invariants

• Throwing and Catching Exceptions

Throwing Exceptions; Catching Exceptions; Exceptions and Threads

• A vector Implementation

A Simple vector; Representing Memory Explicitly; Assignment; Changing Size

• Advice

13.1. Error Handling

This chapter presents error handling using exceptions. For effective error handling, the language mechanisms must be used based on a strategy. Consequently, this ...