Question

What will happen if an exception that is thrown may cause a whole load of objects to go out of scope?

(a) Terminate the program

(b) Produce a runtime error

(c) It will be added to the overhead

(d) Compilation error

I had been asked this question by my school principal while I was bunking the class.

I would like to ask this question from Exceptions and Efficiency topic in portion Derived Classes, Templates & Exception Handling in C++ of C++

Answer 1

Right answer is (c) It will be added to the overhead

For explanation: It will be added to the overhead if an exception that is thrown may cause a whole load of objects to go out of scope.