Summary
In this chapter, we looked to understand the crucial concept of exception safety with the STL. We explored the different levels of exception safety, namely basic and strong guarantees, and outlined strategies to ensure that your programs are resilient to exceptions. We learned how to maintain program invariants and resource integrity through detailed discussions, mainly focusing on RAII principles and guarded operations to prevent resource leaks and maintain container states during exceptions.
Understanding exception safety is indispensable for writing robust C++ applications. It ensures that, even in the face of errors, your software’s integrity remains intact, preventing resource leaks and preserving the validity of data structures. This knowledge is the backbone of reliable and maintainable code, as it allows us to uphold strong guarantees that our applications will behave predictably under exceptional conditions.
In the next chapter, titled Thread Safety and...
