LL008
Empty except block
Object Pascal — Delphi & Free Pascal
Warning
Reliability
Swallowing exceptions hides failures and complicates recovery
swallowing exceptions hides failures and complicates recovery.
Why this severity
swallowing exceptions hides failures and complicates recovery.
Known false positives
deliberate best-effort cleanup where failures are intentionally ignored.
Remediation example
try
DoWork;
except
on E: Exception do
LogError(E.Message);
end;