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		fjjdrnrbbrb 12 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: C++ says “We have try... finally at home” Throwing exceptions in destructors in C++ is fine, as long as your code is exception safe. What exactly are you referring to?

meindnoch 10 days ago [–]

Throwing exceptions from destructors is "fine", except when the destructor is executed by stack unwinding (triggered by an earlier exception), in which case throwing will terminate the program with std::terminate.

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