Offers some insight into the use and potential misuse of exceptions.

It is becoming increasingly popular to consider throwing destructors a bad practice. This document presents some insights on the problem and shows that maybe throwing from a destructor is not such a bad idea.

Constructor Tracking - Talks about dealing with exceptions that occur during object initialization by taking a look at smart_ptr initialization that has important teachings for any generic design - and policy-based classes in particular. (Andrei Alexa...

Reviews guidelines developed years ago for throwing exceptions and how to use exception specifications.

Describes an optimization that produces modest but useful gains on some existing C++ code, but produces very significant size and speed gains on code that uses empty exception specifications, avoiding otherwise serious performance losses.

Exception handling in C++ can save a program from digital death, but it must be treated with care. Kevlin Henney explains how to make programs exception-safe.

An indepth discussion of how VC++ implements exception handling. Source code includes exception handling library for VC++.

Lessons learned from specifying exception-safety for the C++ standard library.

Discusses how to analyze the exception safety of a function. (Andrei Alexandrescu and David B. Held)

Explains why most members of the C++ community vastly underestimate the skills needed to program with exceptions and therefore underestimate the true costs of their use. By Tom Cargill.