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Hi,

I have not used much of exception handling in C++ and was wondering
what are the right situations to do so . Coming from a C background ,
error handling seems to take care of most things. When should one
decide to throw an exception and when should one try to stick to error
handling ?

Thanks in advance,
vivekian

Mar 8 '06 #1
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vivekian wrote:
I have not used much of exception handling in C++ and was wondering
what are the right situations to do so . Coming from a C background ,
error handling seems to take care of most things. When should one
decide to throw an exception and when should one try to stick to error
handling ?


This is an FAQ:

http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/exceptions.html

Come back if you have questions after reviewing that.

Best regards,

Tom

Mar 8 '06 #2

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