std::runtime_error (3) - Linux Manuals

std::runtime_error: std::runtime_error

NAME

std::runtime_error - std::runtime_error

Synopsis

Defined in header <stdexcept>
class runtime_error;

Defines a type of object to be thrown as exception. It reports errors that are due to events beyond the scope of the program and can not be easily predicted.
Exceptions of type std::runtime_error are thrown by the following standard library components: std::locale::locale and std::locale::combine.
In addition, the standard exception types std::range_error, std::overflow_error, std::underflow_error, std::regex_error, and std::system_error are derived from std::runtime_error.
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Inheritance diagram

Member functions

              constructs the exception object
constructor (public member function)

 std::runtime_error::runtime_error

explicit runtime_error( const std::string& what_arg ); (1)
explicit runtime_error( const char* what_arg ); (2) (since C++11)

Constructs the exception object with what_arg as explanatory string that can be accessed through what().
Because copying std::runtime_error is not permitted to throw exceptions, this message is typically stored internally as a separately-allocated reference-counted string. This is also why there is no constructor taking std::string&&: it would have to copy the content anyway.

Parameters

what_arg - explanatory string

Exceptions

May throw std::bad_alloc

Inherited from std::exception

Member functions

destructor destroys the exception object
             (virtual public member function of std::exception)
[virtual]

what returns an explanatory string
             (virtual public member function of std::exception)
[virtual]