Comparison of Exception Handling in C++ and Java - GeeksforGeeks

08 Dec, 2021
Both languages use to try, catch and throw keywords for exception handling, and their meaning is also the same in both languages. 
Following are the differences between Java and C++ exception handling:
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The above points have been discussed in detail below:
1) In C++, all types (including primitive and pointer) can be thrown as exceptions. But in Java, only throwable objects (Throwable objects are instances of any subclass of the Throwable class) can be thrown as exceptions. For example, the following type of code works in C++, but similar code doesn’t work in Java.
CPP
// CPP Program to demonstrate all types (including primitive// and pointer) can be thrown as exception.#include <iostream>using namespace std;int main(){    int x = -1;      // some other stuff    try {        // some other stuff        if (x < 0) {            throw x;        }    }    catch (int x) {        cout << "Exception occurred: thrown value is " << x             << endl;    }    getchar();    return 0;}
Exception occurred: thrown value is -1
2) In C++, there is a special catch called “catch all” that can catch all kinds of exceptions.  
CPP
// CPP Program to demonstrate catch all#include <iostream>using namespace std;int main(){    int x = -1;    char* ptr;      ptr = new char[256];      try {          if (x < 0) {            throw x;        }        if (ptr == NULL) {            throw " ptr is NULL ";        }    }    catch (...) // catch all    {        cout << "Exception occurred: exiting " << endl;        exit(0);    }      getchar();    return 0;}
Exception occurred: exiting 
In Java, for all practical purposes, we can catch Exception objects to catch all kinds of exceptions. Because normally we do not catch Throwable(s) other than Exception(s) (which are Errors) 
catch(Exception e){
 .......
}
3) In Java, there is a block called finally that is always executed after the try-catch block. This block can be used to do cleanup work. There is no such block in C++. 
Java
// Java Program to demonstrate creating an exception typeclass Test extends Exception {}  class Main {    public static void main(String args[])    {          try {            throw new Test();        }        catch (Test t) {            System.out.println("Got the Test Exception");        }        finally {            System.out.println("Inside finally block ");        }    }}
Got the Test Exception
Inside finally block 
4) In C++, all exceptions are unchecked. In Java, there are two types of exceptions – checked and unchecked. See this for more details on checked vs Unchecked exceptions.
5) In Java, a new keyword throws is used to list exceptions that can be thrown by a function. In C++, there is no throws keyword, the same keyword throw is used for this purpose also.
6) In C++ if the exception isn’t caught then the exception handling subsystem calls the function unexpected(), which terminates the program or an application abnormally. If any exception arises in our C++ program then finding that particular exception is very time-consuming because in C++ unexpected() did not tell us that which type and on which line the exception has occurred. For more details on unexpected() refer to this.
But in Java, if the system-generated exception isn’t caught then the java runtime system(JVM) handover the exception object to the default exception handler, which basically prints the name, description, and on which line the exception has occurred. So, in Java finding and handling the exception is easier than in the C++ language. 
For more details on the default exception handler refer to this.
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