Exception guarantees

Exception guarantees

Exception guarantees, also known as the Abrahams guarantees after David Abrahams who formalized the guidelines [cite web |url=http://www.boost.org/community/exception_safety.html |title=Exception-Safety in Generic Components |accessdate=2008-08-29 ] [cite conference |last=Abrahams |first=David |title=Exception-Safety in Generic Components |booktitle=Generic Programming: Proceedings of a Dagstuhl Seminar |year=1999 |publisher=Springer Verlag ] , are a set of contractual guidelines that class library implementors and clients use when reasoning about exception safety in C++ programs.

The rules apply to class implementations (components) in the presence of exceptions; they are as follows:
* The basic guarantee: that the invariants of the component are preserved, and no resources are leaked.
* The strong guarantee: that the operation has either completed successfully or thrown an exception, leaving the program state exactly as it was before the operation started.
* The no-throw guarantee: that the operation will not throw an exception.

Code that doesn't follow one of the above rules is called "exception unsafe".

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