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Revision as of 00:16, 6 November 2008
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Last revision (mm/dd/yy): 11/6/2008
Description
Returning from inside a finally block will cause exceptions to be lost.
A return statement inside a finally block will cause any exception that might be thrown in the try block to be discarded.
Risk Factors
TBD
Examples
In the following code excerpt, the IllegalArgumentException will never be delivered to the caller. The finally block will cause the exception to be discarded.
try {
...
throw IllegalArgumentException();
}
finally {
return r;
}
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References
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