What's the best way to stop at an error in a program?
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I come from a Java background and am used to throwing an exception when I check something and find it has an invalid value. I tend to use them much like assert statements - I'm just checking to make sure the program has not entered an invalid state, and if it has I want the program to halt at that point and print an error message. I rarely catch thrown exceptions since usually they represent faulty behavior and there is little point in continuing.
What would be the best way to do something similar in Qt/C++? I've tried adding in throw clauses, but they cause my program to exit without printing an error message:
if (index < 0) throw "Index should be greater than 0"; -
I come from a Java background and am used to throwing an exception when I check something and find it has an invalid value. I tend to use them much like assert statements - I'm just checking to make sure the program has not entered an invalid state, and if it has I want the program to halt at that point and print an error message. I rarely catch thrown exceptions since usually they represent faulty behavior and there is little point in continuing.
What would be the best way to do something similar in Qt/C++? I've tried adding in throw clauses, but they cause my program to exit without printing an error message:
if (index < 0) throw "Index should be greater than 0";@kitfox
If you use expections you will also need to catch it at some point. Otherweise your program exits for an uncaught expection.
I am not a big fan of exceptions. You should rather design your program to handle the invalid state properly by your software design. -
I come from a Java background and am used to throwing an exception when I check something and find it has an invalid value. I tend to use them much like assert statements - I'm just checking to make sure the program has not entered an invalid state, and if it has I want the program to halt at that point and print an error message. I rarely catch thrown exceptions since usually they represent faulty behavior and there is little point in continuing.
What would be the best way to do something similar in Qt/C++? I've tried adding in throw clauses, but they cause my program to exit without printing an error message:
if (index < 0) throw "Index should be greater than 0";I've tried adding in throw clauses, but they cause my program to exit without printing an error message:
I suggest to take another look into corresponding information sources like the article “Quality Matters #6: Exceptions for Practically-Unrecoverable Conditions”.
