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Exception-Safety in Generic Components Lessons learned from specifying exception-safety for the C++ standard library. http://www.boost.org/more/generic_exception_safety.html Exception Handling: A False Sense Of Security Explains why most members of the C++ community vastly underestimate the skills needed to program with exceptions and therefore underestimate the true costs of their use. By Tom Cargill. http://www.awprofessional.com/content/images/020163371x/supplements/Exception_Handling_Article.html 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. http://www.gotw.ca/publications/mill13.htm C++ Exception Handling Introduces the concept of exception handling for handling program errors. http://www.eastcoastgames.com/articles/cppexception.html Adding Exception Testing to Unit Tests This article describes a simple method of adding exhaustive testing of the exception paths to the test suite. http://www.cuj.com/documents/s=8027/cuj0104stanley/ Understanding C++ Exception Handling Offers some insight into the use and potential misuse of exceptions. http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article953.asp Error and Exception Handling Presents some guidelines when to use exceptions. http://www.boost.org/more/error_handling.html Revisiting Exception Handling Reviews guidelines developed years ago for throwing exceptions and how to use exception specifications. http://www.cuj.com/documents/s=8249/cujcexp2105reeves/ Exception Handling in C++ Learn how to throw an exception, how to associate handlers, or catch clauses, with a set of program statements using a try block, how exceptions are handled by catch clauses, exception specifications, and design considerations for programs that use except http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=31537 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. http://kolpackov.net/projects/c++/eh/dtor-1.xhtml C++ Tutorial on Exceptions This tutorial covers basic exception handling in C++. Several simple examples are presented and the concept of stack unwinding is described. http://cplus.about.com/library/weekly/aa122202a.htm

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