[boost] Re: Exception safety guarantees

From: Alexander Terekhov (terekhov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-11-03 18:54:33

"E. Gladyshev" wrote:
[...]
> Ok, when an exception happens, how do I use exception safety techniques
> in practice, can you give some *practical* examples with catch(...)?

They'll all work just fine as long as your program is "correct" (read: 
nothing unexpected can be thrown, each and every swallowed exception 
is really-really meant to be swallowed, stack overflow and all other 
"hardware exceptions" aren't meant to be catchable by "the C++ catch" 
and so forth). IOW, you're not supposed to ever have an "incorrect" 
program. In theory, an incorrect program may fake the stack and cause 
the stack walker sing a nice song (formatting your hard disk aside for 
a moment), so the idea is that "you should live with it" and it's Not
Worth Worrying About. Think positive, so to speak. ;-)

regards,
alexander.