https://e-sygoing.link Latest links in the Exception Handling category en-us Sun, 24 May 2026 07:38:55 -0400 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5642337-understanding-c-exception-handling Offers some insight into the use and potential misuse of exceptions. Sun, 01 Feb 2026 23:26:30 -0500 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5642337 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5642351-exception-safety-analysis Discusses how to analyze the exception safety of a function. (Andrei Alexandrescu and David B. Held) Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:45:28 -0500 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5642351 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5642352-smart-pointers-reloaded-iii Constructor Tracking - Talks about dealing with exceptions that occur during object initialization by taking a look at smart_ptr initialization that has important teachings for any generic design - and policy-based classes in particular. (Andrei Alexandrescu and David B. Held) Wed, 05 Nov 2025 21:34:19 -0500 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5642352 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5642341-constructor-failures-or-the-objects-that-never-were Shows what object construction, and construction failure, mean in C++; and that function try blocks are useful to translate an exception thrown from a base or member subobject constructor. Sun, 24 Aug 2025 03:56:13 -0400 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5642341 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5642345-adding-exception-testing-to-unit-tests This article describes a simple method of adding exhaustive testing of the exception paths to the test suite. Thu, 26 Jun 2025 22:25:38 -0400 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5642345 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5642348-optimizing-away-c-exception-handling Describes an optimization that produces modest but useful gains on some existing C++ code, but produces very significant size and speed gains on code that uses empty exception specifications, avoiding otherwise serious performance losses. Tue, 08 Apr 2025 01:20:21 -0400 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5642348 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5642338-exception-safety-in-generic-components Lessons learned from specifying exception-safety for the C++ standard library. Tue, 04 Feb 2025 16:20:37 -0500 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5642338 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5642349-how-a-c-compiler-implements-exception-handling An indepth discussion of how VC++ implements exception handling. Source code includes exception handling library for VC++. Wed, 25 Sep 2024 20:06:45 -0400 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5642349 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5642344-revisiting-exception-handling Reviews guidelines developed years ago for throwing exceptions and how to use exception specifications. Wed, 25 Sep 2024 06:50:31 -0400 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5642344 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5642346-throwing-destructors It is becoming increasingly popular to consider throwing destructors a bad practice. This document presents some insights on the problem and shows that maybe throwing from a destructor is not such a bad idea. Sun, 05 May 2024 04:32:57 -0400 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5642346