Chapter 12. Exception Handling
A lot can go wrong when a program runs. The user can provide inappropriate input data, a system or network error might occur, or there might simply be a bug in the code that you didn't know was there. Exception handling allows a program to continue running when an exception occurs. The exception is detected and processed in such a way that the program can keep going.
There is no built-in exception handling in Fortran or C. If you want exception handling in these languages, you have to do all the programming work yourself which usually involves a potentially complicated set of if-then statements and error codes. You also have to perform the exception handling where the exception will occur. You can't easily pass the ...
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