C++ Core Guidelines Explained: Best Practices for Modern C++

Chapter 11

Error Handling

Cippi handles errors.

First of all, according to the C++ Core Guidelines, the following actions are involved in error handling:

• Detect an error.

• Transmit information about an error to some handler code.

• Preserve the valid state of a program.

• Avoid resource leaks.

You should use exceptions for error handling. David Abrahams, one of the founders of the Boost C++ Library and former member of the ISO C++ standardization committee, formalized in the document “Exception Safety in Generic Components” what exception safety means. “Abrahams guarantees” describe a contract that is fundamental if you think about exception ...