Re: [Cpptool-develop] New Methodlevel Refacturing Features ??

[Baptiste L. <gai...@fr...>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andre Baresel" <and...@gm...>
To: "Baptiste Lepilleur" <gai...@fr...>
Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Cpptool-develop] New Methodlevel Refacturing Features ??


> Baptiste Lepilleur wrote:
> >>- add a try-catch-block arround a function call (or any other
> >>statement). For the first we could ask the
> >>user for the exception type that will be catched and later we could
> >>analyse the statement and give the user
> >>a list of exceptions that maybe have to be handled because of "throws"
> >>in function declarations of calls.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Adding a try/catch is doable. Guessing the exception type is  nearly
> >impossible. Even C++ compiler can't do that (because of virtual call
among
> >other things). Even a basic analysis requires very advanced expression
> >analysis.
> >
> Well,  ment not a guessing by parsing the called function bodies, but
> searching the function header for
> a "throws" element.

It is usually ill advised to use exception specification, so this would not
help. See boost rationale:
http://boost.org/more/lib_guide.htm#Exception-specification

Baptiste.

>
> -- Andre