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Re: C++ exceptions are broken.

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On 2016-03-15 15:45, Gareth Owen wrote:
>
> "James K. Lowden" <jklowden@speakeasy.net> writes:
>
>> Oh, so you mean that the programmer may do something in handling the
>> exception to convert logic_error to runtime_error.  Sure.
>
> No, the problem is
>
>    throw std::logic_error("I've made a terrible mistake");
>
> calls the constructor
>
>    std::logic_error(const std::string&);
>
> which has to construct a string, which might throw std::bad_alloc
>
>

There is also a constructor

     explicit logic_error(const char*);

which doesn't have to call a string constructor.



Bo Persson


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