Error with try catch rethrow...

[SwapnilDipankar]

Hi,

The code snippet below works just fine in Linux, but gives me errors when compiled in MSVC++ 6.0. Any thoughts? The code crashes on the line delete pdeOperation;:

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
pdeFileOperation *pdeOperation;

try {
pdeOperation = new pdeFileOperation;
} catch(bad_alloc& badAllocError) {
cerr << "Error:: Initializing memory" << endl;
return (EXIT_FAILURE);
} catch(...) {
delete pdeOperation;
cerr << "Error:: Program exited with errors" << endl;
return (EXIT_SUCCESS);
}

pdeOperation->processFiles(0);
delete pdeOperation;

#ifdef _DEBUG_MODE_
cout << "Program exited successfully" << endl;
#endif

return (EXIT_SUCCESS);
}

Cheers!!
-Swapnil

 

[cpjust]

Try changing:

pdeFileOperation *pdeOperation;

to:

pdeFileOperation *pdeOperation = NULL;

I don't think VC++ 6.0 always throws a bad_alloc exception if new fails, so you might be trying to delete a dangling pointer.

 

[SwapnilDipankar]

Thanks a lot. The suggested solution works just fine. It was a rather lousy mistake at my end.

Cheers!!
-Swapnil