C++ Common Knowledge: Essential Intermediate Programming

Item 38. Writing an exception safe program or library is a little like proving a theorem in Euclidean geometry. Starting with as minimal a set...

First, note that exceptions are synchronous and can occur only at the boundary of a function call. Therefore, operations like arithmetic on predefined types, assignment...

This is a socially based, not technically based, axiom. Conventionally, destructors, operator delete, and operator delete[] do not throw exceptions. Consider an imaginary destructor that...

This is another socially based axiom, but it's not as ingrained and universally recognized as the prohibition on destructors and deletions that throw. Swapping would...