Exception Handling Class Woes

[ventolin]

Hi ,

I have just been investigating the use of classes to do exception handling, and am just running into a few problems, and not sure why!!

Here is what im attempting code wise .. does any one know why i get an abnormal program termination when running this code? (using WinXP / MSVC++)

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

class Exception
{
public:
	
	Exception() {}
	Exception(char *file,int line) 
	{ 
		cout << "Exception on line: " << line << endl; 
		cout << "Exception in file: " << file << endl; 
	}

	~Exception() { cout << "Destructor called" << endl; }
};

int main()
{

	int i = 0;

	if(i == 0) 
		throw Exception(__FILE__,__LINE__);
	
	return 0;
}

[IfYouSaySo]

Because you are throwing the exception, and you are not catching it. That is what is supposed to happen. Maybe this is what you want?

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

class Exception
{
public:
	
	Exception() {}
	Exception(char *file,int line) 
	{ 
		cout << "Exception on line: " << line << endl; 
		cout << "Exception in file: " << file << endl; 
	}

	~Exception() { cout << "Destructor called" << endl; }
};

int main()
{

	int i = 0;

        try {
	if(i == 0) 
		throw Exception(__FILE__,__LINE__);
        }
        catch (Exception& e) {
            cout << "Caught exception" << endl;
        }
	
	return 0;
}

Also, usually, you would expose the file and line number via some interface (or just make them public members), and then you would print out whatever you wanted in the catch block. Also, you might want to look at the std::exception class.