Catching exceptions in constructor

Question

The following example leave a possible memory leak because the destructor doesn't run for the object on which the exception is handled during its constructor is run. where do i handle this memory leak?

#include <exception>

class MyClass {

public:
       MyClass() 
       {
           c = new char[5];
           throw std::runtime_error("test");
       }

      ~MyClass ()
       {
           delete[] c;
       }

private:
    char *c;
};

int main()
{
    try 
    {
        MyClass Obj;

    } 
    catch (std::runtime_error)
    {

    }
}

Answer 1

Catch the exception in the constructor, tidy up (deallocate your memory), then throw the exception without the memory leak.