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.

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...

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

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

This article describes a simple method of adding exhaustive testing of the exception paths to the test suite.