clang-tidy - bugprone-exception-escape — Extra Clang Tools 19.1.7 documentation

# Extra Clang Tools 19.1.7 documentation

## clang-tidy - bugprone-exception-escape

# bugprone-exception-escape

Finds functions which may throw an exception directly or indirectly, but they should not. The functions which should not throw exceptions are the following:

- Destructors

- Move constructors

- Move assignment operators

- The `main()` functions

- `swap()` functions

- `iter_swap()` functions

- `iter_move()` functions

- Functions marked with `throw()` or `noexcept`

- Other functions given as option

A destructor throwing an exception may result in undefined behavior, resource leaks or unexpected termination of the program. Throwing move constructor or move assignment also may result in undefined behavior or resource leak. The `swap()` operations expected to be non throwing most of the cases and they are always possible to implement in a non throwing way. Non throwing `swap()` operations are also used to create move operations. A throwing `main()` function also results in unexpected termination.

Functions declared explicitly with `noexcept(false)` or `throw(exception)` will be excluded from the analysis, as even though it is not recommended for functions like `swap()`, `main()`, move constructors, move assignment operators and destructors, it is a clear indication of the developer’s intention and should be respected.

WARNING! This check may be expensive on large source files.

## Options

FunctionsThatShouldNotThrow

  Comma separated list containing function names which should not throw. An example value for this parameter can be `WinMain` which adds function `WinMain()` in the Windows API to the list of the functions which should not throw. Default value is an empty string.

IgnoredExceptions

  Comma separated list containing type names which are not counted as thrown exceptions in the check. Default value is an empty string.