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16.2.2 Exceptions

Exception handling is a language feature present in other modern programming languages. Ada and Java both have exception handling mechanisms. In essence, exception handling is a means of propagating a classified error by unwinding the procedure call stack until the error is caught by a higher procedure in the procedure call chain. A procedure indicates its willingness to handle a kind of error by catching it:

 
void foo ();

void
func ()
{
  try {
    foo ();
  }
  catch (...) {
    cerr << "foo failed!" << endl;
  }
}

Conversely, a procedure can throw an exception when something goes wrong:

 
typedef int io_error;

void
init ()
{
  int fd;
  fd = open ("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY);
  if (fd < 0) {
    throw io_error(errno);
  }
}

C++ compilers tend to implement exception handling in full, or not at all. If any C++ compiler you may be concerned with does not implement exception handling, you may wish to take the lowest common denominator approach and eliminate such code from your project.


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