How to free memory in try-catch blocks?

Question

I have a simple question hopefully - how does one free memory which was allocated in the try block when the exception occurs? Consider the following code:

try
 {         


        

Answer 1

OK mister Java programmer:

try
{
    // Exception safe dynamic allocation of a block of memory.
    std::vector  heap(50);

    // DO STUFF

    // Note in C++ we use stack based objects and their constructor/destructor
    // TO give a deterministic cleanup, even in the presence of exceptions.
    //
    // Look up RAII (bad name for a fantastic concept).
}
catch (...)
{
    cout << "Error, leaving function now";
    return 1;  // Though why you want to return when you have not fixed the exception is
               // slightly strange. Did you want to rethrow?
}