I was writing some piece of code and then, after pondering on some
readings in "More Effective C++" by Scott Meyers (Item 10) and the book of
Stroustrup (section 14.4.1 in the hardcover special edition), I tested one
of their solutions to write constructors that avoid memory leaks upon
exceptions. But the leaks were still there!

So I wrote a simple test case and here is the code:

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#include <iostream>

using namespace std ;

class chose_binouche
{
public :

chose_binouche()
{
cout << "ctor" << endl ;
}

~chose_binouche()
{
cout << "dtor" << endl ;
}

} ;

class bidon
{
public :

chose_binouche a ;
chose_binouche b ;

bidon()
: a() ,
b()
{
throw "exception" ;
}

~bidon()
{
}

} ;

int
main()
{
bidon b ;
return 0 ;
}

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In theory (according to the readings mentionned above), the destructors
for the field a and b in class bidon should be called after the exception
is thrown in the constructor;

however, the output of the program was:

ctor
ctor
Aborted (core dumped)

Hi!

I was writing some piece of code and then, after pondering on some
readings in "More Effective C++" by Scott Meyers (Item 10) and the book
of Stroustrup (section 14.4.1 in the hardcover special edition), I
tested one of their solutions to write constructors that avoid memory
leaks upon exceptions. But the leaks were still there!

So I wrote a simple test case and here is the code:

%%%%%

#include <iostream>

using namespace std ;

class chose_binouche
{
public :

chose_binouche()
{
cout << "ctor" << endl ;
}

~chose_binouche()
{
cout << "dtor" << endl ;
}

} ;

class bidon
{
public :

chose_binouche a ;
chose_binouche b ;

bidon()
: a() ,
b()
{
throw "exception" ;
}

~bidon()
{
}

} ;

int
main()
{

bidon b ;

return 0 ;
}

%%%%%

In theory (according to the readings mentionned above), the destructors
for the field a and b in class bidon should be called after the
exception is thrown in the constructor; however, the output of the
program was:

ctor
ctor
Aborted (core dumped)

No dtor displayed!

The compiler I am using is g++-3.3.3 and g++-3.4.0 on a Fedora Core 2
Linux station, and I was about to send a bug report but then again maybe
there is something I didn't get right. Unfortunately, I do not have
another compiler at hand to see what it does on other environments.

Can someone else confirm this or prove me wrong?