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<concept id="GUID-0715E8B9-8F43-5C7B-BDC6-4E8FA5352714" xml:lang="en"><title>Cleanup

following trap harnesses</title><shortdesc>Some cleanup requirements must be handled by the cleanup code after

the trap harness.</shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>

<p>Some cleanup requirements must be handled by the cleanup code after the

trap harness, on discovering that the leave code is not <codeph>KErrNone</codeph>.

The cleanup requirements may include:</p>

<ul>

<li id="GUID-3F81400F-8343-50A9-9076-D342AB8FA85C"><p>rolling back changes

to restore an object to the state it was in before the function which left

was invoked</p> <p>For instance, a “set font” command might have been issued

for some characters in a line, and might fail because of lack of memory: the

line should be restored to its previous state.</p> <p>Rollback is not always

easy. Often, it’s simpler to prepare a change that would be guaranteed to

work, and apply it if the change was prepared successfully. If a leave occurred

in the act of preparing a change, the change can be destroyed. It’s usually

easier to destroy a change than to roll it back.</p> </li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li id="GUID-CD29C562-17AE-50D6-A629-FFCE70B60545"><p>destroying a partially-constructed

object</p> <p>Most requirements for destroying partially-constructed objects

will be dealt with by the cleanup stack. There may be a requirement to destroy

some partially-constructed objects as part of rollback processing. </p> </li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li id="GUID-4E8F6B7C-009E-5EC6-BBB9-A737B16CDBBD"><p>closing files and other

such resources, where this is not encapsulated in use of the cleanup stack.</p> </li>

</ul>