C++ : handle resources if constructors may throw exceptions (Reference to FAQ 17.4]

Question

Thanks for all the response.

I reformatted my question to understand the state of the member pointer after the containg class constructor throws an exception

Answer 1

The question really doesn't make any sense. new Fred(); will never return NULL. It will only ever either successfully create a Fred object, or throw an exception. If it threw an exception, the Fred object would never have existed, so it's destructor would not be called.