C++ How to Program, 10/e

Self-Review Exercises

1. 17.1 List five common examples of exceptions.

2. 17.2 Give several reasons why exception-handling techniques should not be used for conventional program control.

3. 17.3 Why are exceptions appropriate for dealing with errors produced by library functions?

4. 17.4 What’s a “resource leak”?

5. 17.5 If no exceptions are thrown in a try block, where does control proceed to after the try block completes execution?

6. 17.6 What happens if an exception is thrown outside a try block?

7. 17.7 Give a key advantage and a key disadvantage of using catch(...).

8. 17.8 What happens if no catch handler matches the type of a thrown object?

9. 17.9 What happens if several handlers match the type of the thrown object?

10. 17.10 Why would ...