It is important that resources are reclaimed when exceptions are thrown. Throwing an exception may result in cleanup code being bypassed. As a result, it is the responsibility of the exception handler to properly cleanup. This may be problematic if the exception is to be caught in a different function or module. Instead, it is preferable if resources are reclaimed automatically when objects go out of scope.
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Compliant Code Example
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while (moreToDo) {
SomeType *pst = getNextItem();
try {
pst->processItem();
}
catch (...) {
// deal with exception
throw;
}
delete pst;
}
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