For example, suppose I have a struct with some array variables, and I read data in it from a file, variable by variable. What if I throw a custom exception (without catching) after unsuccessful attempt of reading the third array, asking a user to check the data in the file, for instance? Will the da…

Can I have some kind of a memory leak when an exception is being thrown?

kristoffer.carlsson May 7, 2020, 7:20am 2

Yes. The garbage collector will at some point handle that.

Allocating a huge amount of “unnecessary” memory will of course have performance considerations but that doesn’t seem to apply to this case.

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