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This paper presents a set of concepts and design techniques that has proven successful in implementing and using C++ libraries intended for applications that simultaneously require high reliability and high performance. The notion of exception safety is based on the basic guarantee that maintains basic invariants and avoids resource leaks and the strong guarantee that ensures that a failed operation has no effect.
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The concepts and techniques described here are the work of many individuals. In particular, Dave Abrahams, Matt Austern, and Greg Colvin made major contributions to the notions of exception safety embodied in the C++ standard library.
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Stroustrup, B. (2001). Exception Safety: Concepts and Techniques. In: Romanovsky, A., Dony, C., Knudsen, J.L., Tripathi, A. (eds) Advances in Exception Handling Techniques. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2022. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45407-1_4
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