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CaughtExceptionImmediatelyRethrown

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2025.3-rc-2310 B
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Reports catch blocks that immediately rethrow the caught exception without performing any action on it. Such catch blocks are unnecessary and have no error handling.

Example:

try {
            new FileInputStream("");
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            throw e;
        }