Re: Bjarne's exception safe sample

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"George" wrote:

I agree with cd's comments. Maybe Bjarne means throwing exception through
operator new? Not sure his ideas -- hard to catch.

No, he means throwing an exception from T's copy constructor. You posted the quote yourself in original post:

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The assignment operator may fail by throwing an exception from T's copy constructor. This would leave a T in an undefined state because the old value of *p was destroyed and no new value replaced it.

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Alex

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