== Why is this an issue?

When rethrowing an exception, you should do it by simply calling ``++throw;++`` and not ``++throw exc;++``, because the stack trace is reset with the second syntax, making debugging a lot harder.


=== Noncompliant code example

[source,csharp]
----
try
{}
catch(ExceptionType1 exc)
{
  Console.WriteLine(exc);
  throw exc; // Noncompliant; stacktrace is reset
}
catch (ExceptionType2 exc) 
{
  throw new Exception("My custom message", exc);  // Compliant; stack trace preserved
}
----


=== Compliant solution

[source,csharp]
----
try
{}
catch(ExceptionType1 exc)
{
  Console.WriteLine(exc);
  throw;
}
catch (ExceptionType2 exc) 
{
  throw new Exception("My custom message", exc);
}
----


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== Implementation Specification
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=== Message

Use "throw;" instead of "throw xxx;" to preserve the stack trace.


=== Highlighting

The whole "throw exc;" statement


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== Comments And Links
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=== on 8 Dec 2015, 09:14:18 Tamas Vajk wrote:
\[~ann.campbell.2] LGTM

=== on 26 Jul 2016, 17:50:15 Tamas Vajk wrote:
\[~ann.campbell.2] I don't think this is a bug.

=== on 27 Jul 2016, 13:30:00 Freddy Mallet wrote:
Agreed [~tamas.vajk] and this is the limit of the usage of this "Bug" issue type because this is really a "Reliability" issue that might prevent someone in production to understand an unexpected behavior as the root cause of the issue is lost. That's why we're classifying this issue as a bug. cc [~ann.campbell.2]

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