Global exception handling in C++

Question

Can i implement global exception handling in C++? My requirement is try...catch block is not used in a piece of code then there should be a global exception handler which will handle all uncaught exception.

Can i achieve it, please give your valuable suggestion : )

Answer 1

I always wrap the outer-most function in a try-catch like this:

int main()
{
   try {
      // start your program/function
      Program program; program.Run();
   }
   catch (std::exception& ex) {
      std::cerr << ex.what() << std::endl;
   }
   catch (...) {
      std::cerr << "Caught unknown exception." << std::endl;
   }
}

This will catch everything. Good exception handling in C++ is not about writing try-catch all over, but to catch where you know how to handle it (like you seem to want to do). In this case the only thing to do is to write the error message to stderr so the user can act on it.

Answer 2

you can use a combination of set_terminate and current_exception()

Answer 3

In C++ the terminate function is called when an exception is uncaught. You can install your own terminate handler with the set_terminate function. The downside is that your terminate handler may never return; it must terminate your program with some operating system primitive. The default is just to call abort()

Answer 4

When an exception is raised, if is not caught at that point, it goes up the hierarchy until it is actually caught. If there is no code to handle the exception the program terminates.
You can run specific code before termination to do cleanup by using your own handlers of set_unexpected or set_terminate