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In article <23785@alice.att.com> ark@alice.UUCP () writes:
>In article <1992Oct2.125244.14614@jyu.fi> sakkinen@jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen) writes:
>
>> The handler has no way to know when it has to delete the exception object,
>> short of there being a quasi-Boolean field 'delete_me' in Exception.
>> ...
>
>These problems do not occur if you throw objects (rather than pointers)
>and catch references.  In that case, the implementation takes care of
>deleting things at the proper time.

That is impossible!  If the exception argument has been allocated by 'new',
the implementation cannot guess whether it should be deleted or not.
It may well be an object used by an outer block or function,
and which has not as its _only_ purpose to convey exception information.

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Markku Sakkinen (sakkinen@jytko.jyu.fi)
       SAKKINEN@FINJYU.bitnet (alternative network address)
Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
University of Jyvaskyla (a's with umlauts)
PL 35
SF-40351 Jyvaskyla (umlauts again)
Finland
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