13. Exception Handling in C++
Overview
This chapter introduces exception handling, the mechanism used by C++ for reporting and recovering from unexpected events in a program. By the end of this chapter, you will be able to recognize the kinds of events for which exception handling is appropriate; know when to throw exceptions and when to return an error code; write robust code using exception handling; Use RAII with exception handling to automatically reclaim resources after an unexpected event; and recover from and continue execution after unexpected events.
Introduction
Previous chapters introduced C++ flow-of-control statements and variable declarations. We have had a taste of object-oriented programming and created data structures ...
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