Other Error-Handling Techniques

• Ignore exception
  • Typical for personal (not commercial) software
  • Program may fail
• Abort program
  • Usually appropriate
  • Not appropriate for mission-critical software
• Set error indicators
  • Unfortunately, may not test for these when necessary
• Test for error condition
  • Call exit ($<$cstdlib$>$) and pass error code
• setjump and longjump
  • $<$csetjmp$>$
  • Jump from deeply nested function to call error handler
  • Can be dangerous
• Dedicated error handling
  • new can have a special handler
  • Discussed 13.11