TITLE: Throwing exceptions in destructors


PROBLEM:pweerd@medialab.nl (Peter van der Weerd)

I have a problem with destructor in combination with exceptions: sometimes
I want to throw an exception from within a destructor. However, when the
destructor which throws the exception was called because another exception
was thrown, the program stoppes with the message "Abnormal program termination".


RESPONSE: clamage@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Clamage), 13 Mar 95


Right. Throwing an exception while an exception is being handled results
in "terminate" being called.

You cannot safely throw an exception in a destructor for that reason,
so don't do it.