Usage of try/catch blocks in C++

Question

In general, I tend to use try/catch for code which has multiple failure points for which the failures have a common handler.

In my experience, this is typically co

Answer 1

In C++ you shouldn't use try/catch blocks to perform cleanup. Instead, you might want to use templates to perform resource aquisition.

auto_ptr's are one [bad] example

Synchronization locks, where you store a mutex as a state variable, and use local variable (templates or regular classes) to perform the .acquire()/.release() methods.

The more of this you do, the less you have to worry about manually releasing objects in exceptional conditions. The C++ compiler will do it for you.