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Exception Handling

This document discusses exception handling in C++. It introduces the need for exception handling to provide graceful exits from programs, pass meaningful messages to callers, and handle abnormal program termination. It covers synchronous exception handling using try, catch, and throw blocks. It also discusses user-defined exceptions by overriding the what() function in the standard exception class. The document notes that destructors are by default noexcept and throwing exceptions in destructors could lead to program termination.

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Exception Handling

This document discusses exception handling in C++. It introduces the need for exception handling to provide graceful exits from programs, pass meaningful messages to callers, and handle abnormal program termination. It covers synchronous exception handling using try, catch, and throw blocks. It also discusses user-defined exceptions by overriding the what() function in the standard exception class. The document notes that destructors are by default noexcept and throwing exceptions in destructors could lead to program termination.

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Exception handling

Topics
• Introduction
• Why we need?
• Types
• C++ standard exceptions
• Constructors
• Destructors
Introduction
• Exception handling in C++.
• Exception means an unexpected problem that arises during the
execution of the program.
• Exception handling provides a way to transfer control from
one part of the program to other part.
Why we need exception handling
#include<iostream>
• Graceful exit using namespace std;
• Meaningful message to caller zero(int a,int b)
{
• Abnormal termination return(a/b);
};
int main()
{
int A=2;
int B=0;
int result;
result=zero(A,B);
cout<<"the result
is"<<result<<endl;
return 0;
}
Types
• Synchronous
• Asynchrounus
Synchronous
Try
Catch
Syntax:
try
{
// protected code
}
catch ( ExceptionName e1 )
{
// catch block
}
catch ( ExceptionName e2 )
{
// catch block
}
catch ( ExceptionName eN )
{
// catch block
}
There is a special catch block called ‘catch all’ catch(…) that can be used to catch all types of exceptions.
 Throw
Syntax:
double division(int a, int b)
{
if( b == 0 )
{
throw "Division by zero condition!";
}
return (a/b);
}
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

double division(int a, int b) {


if( b == 0 ) {
throw "Division by zero condition!";
}
return (a/b);
}

int main () {
int x = 50;
int y = 0;
double z ;

try {
z = division(x, y);
cout << z << endl;
} catch (const char* msg) {
cerr << msg << endl;
}

return 0;
}
C++ standard exceptions
User-Defined Exceptions 
• The C++ std::exception class permits us to define
objects that can be thrown as exceptions. This class is
defined in the <exception> header. The class gives us
a virtual member function named what. 
• This function returns an invalid ended character
sequence of type char*. We can overwrite it in
determined classes to have an exception depiction.
• We can overwrite the ‘what() function’ of the
exception header file to define our exceptions.
Exception handling in constructors
Exception handling in destructors
1. No, It's not a good idea.
2. Destructor are by default noexcept.
std::terminate
3. The Stack unwinding will happen after an exception and we may catch it outside.

throw Foo()

and the

}
catch (Foo e)
{
References
• http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/general/25
3853
/
• https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/exception-ha
ndling-c
/
Q&A

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