Is re-throwing an exception legal in a nested 'try'?

Posted by Alexander Gessler on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Alexander Gessler
Published on 2010-03-17T21:43:59Z Indexed on 2010/03/17 21:51 UTC
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Is the following well-defined in C++, or not? I am forced to 'convert' exceptions to return codes (the API in question is used by many C users, so I need to make sure all C++ exceptions are caught & handled before control is returned to the caller).

enum ErrorCode {…};
ErrorCode dispatcher() {
   try {
      throw;
   }
   catch (std::bad_alloc&) {
      return ErrorCode_OutOfMemory;
   }
   catch (std::logic_error&) {
      return ErrorCode_LogicError;
   }
   catch (myownstdexcderivedclass&) {
      return ErrorCode_42;
   }
   catch(...) {
      return ErrorCode_UnknownWeWillAllDie;
   }
}

ErrorCode apifunc() {
   try {
      // foo() might throw anything
      foo();
   }
   catch(...) {
      // dispatcher rethrows the exception and does fine-grained handling
      return dispatcher();
   }
   return ErrorCode_Fine;
}

ErrorCode apifunc2() {
   try {
      // bar() might throw anything
      bar();
   }
   catch(...) {
      return dispatcher();
   }
   return ErrorCode_Fine;
}

I hope the sample shows my intention. My guess is that this is undefined behaviour, but I'm not sure. Please provide quotes from the standard, if applicable. Alternative approaches are appreciated as well.

Thanks!

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