堆栈展开通常与异常处理有关。这里有一个例子:

void func( int x )
{
    char* pleak = new char[1024]; // might be lost => memory leak
    std::string s( "hello world" ); // will be properly destructed

    if ( x ) throw std::runtime_error( "boom" );

    delete [] pleak; // will only get here if x == 0. if x!=0, throw exception
}

int main()
{
    try
    {
        func( 10 );
    }
    catch ( const std::exception& e )
    {
        return 1;
    }

    return 0;
}

在这里，如果抛出异常，分配给pleak的内存将丢失，而分配给s的内存将在任何情况下通过std::string析构函数正确释放。当退出作用域时，在堆栈上分配的对象将被“解开”(这里的作用域是函数func的作用域)。这是通过编译器插入对自动(堆栈)变量析构函数的调用来完成的。

现在，这是一个非常强大的概念，导致称为RAII的技术，即资源获取即初始化，它帮助我们在c++中管理内存、数据库连接、打开的文件描述符等资源。

现在这允许我们提供异常安全保证。

我不知道你是否读过这篇文章，但维基百科关于调用堆栈的文章有一个很好的解释。

解除:

Returning from the called function will pop the top frame off of the stack, perhaps leaving a return value. The more general act of popping one or more frames off the stack to resume execution elsewhere in the program is called stack unwinding and must be performed when non-local control structures are used, such as those used for exception handling. In this case, the stack frame of a function contains one or more entries specifying exception handlers. When an exception is thrown, the stack is unwound until a handler is found that is prepared to handle (catch) the type of the thrown exception. Some languages have other control structures that require general unwinding. Pascal allows a global goto statement to transfer control out of a nested function and into a previously invoked outer function. This operation requires the stack to be unwound, removing as many stack frames as necessary to restore the proper context to transfer control to the target statement within the enclosing outer function. Similarly, C has the setjmp and longjmp functions that act as non-local gotos. Common Lisp allows control of what happens when the stack is unwound by using the unwind-protect special operator. When applying a continuation, the stack is (logically) unwound and then rewound with the stack of the continuation. This is not the only way to implement continuations; for example, using multiple, explicit stacks, application of a continuation can simply activate its stack and wind a value to be passed. The Scheme programming language allows arbitrary thunks to be executed in specified points on "unwinding" or "rewinding" of the control stack when a continuation is invoked.

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每个人都谈论过c++中的异常处理。但是，我认为堆栈展开还有另一个内涵，它与调试有关。调试器必须在应该转到当前帧之前的帧时进行堆栈展开。然而，这是一种虚拟unwind，因为当它回到当前帧时需要倒带。例如gdb中的up/down/bt命令。

堆栈展开主要是c++的概念，处理当堆栈分配的对象的作用域退出时(正常退出或通过异常退出)如何销毁。

假设你有这样一段代码:

void hw() {
    string hello("Hello, ");
    string world("world!\n");
    cout << hello << world;
} // at this point, "world" is destroyed, followed by "hello"

在一般意义上，堆栈“unwind”几乎等同于函数调用的结束和随后的堆栈弹出。

然而，特别是在c++的情况下，堆栈展开必须与c++如何调用自任何代码块开始分配的对象的析构函数有关。在块中创建的对象将按照其分配的相反顺序被释放。

在Java堆栈中，不宽或不伤人不是很重要(使用垃圾收集器)。在许多异常处理论文中，我看到了这个概念(堆栈展开)，特别是那些作者在C或c++中处理异常处理。对于try catch块，我们不应该忘记:在局部块之后释放所有对象的堆栈。