I have the following questions about throwing exceptions while in an objects constructor.
1.) If you throw an exception in a constructor...does the destructor for that object get called?
2.) If your throw an exception in a constructor, does an opened handle(on windows) or file pointer(in C/C++) remain open and memory leaked until your manually release the resource?
Throwing Exception in constructor?
- If an exception is thrown inside the constructor for an object, then that object's destructor is NOT called. The destructors of any member objects it contains, and the destructors of any classes it inherits from however will be.
- Exception handling won't do anything about any open files or allocated objects unless they're managed in some objects destructor (like std::filebuf or std::auto_ptr) or explicitly dealt with in a try/catch block. As such, the answer is probably yes, you'll create a leak if an exception is thrown.
No, std::auto_ptr cannot be used with a Windows HANDLE. Since we're on the subject, it also can't be used for arrays.
im guessing i would need to create my own RAII object for this then?
Or use [font="Courier New"]std::shared_ptr [/font]with a destructor argument.
I believe shared_ptr is part of C++0x, which may not be something one would want to mess with yet.
I believe shared_ptr is part of C++0x, which may not be something one would want to mess with yet.
There's always the Boost version though.
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