Re: exception and polymorphism problem

From:
josh <xdevel1999@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
16 May 2007 04:43:15 -0700
Message-ID:
<1179315795.479517.140130@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>
On 16 Mag, 13:04, Erik Wikstr=F6m <eri...@student.chalmers.se> wrote:

On 16 Maj, 13:01, josh <xdevel1...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi I have this code:

class Exception : public exception
{
public:
        Exception(string m="exception!") : msg(m) {}
        ~Exception() throw() {}
        const char* what() { return msg.c_str(); }

private:
        string msg;

};

int main()
{
        try
        {
                throw Exception();
        }
        catch(exception e)
        {
                cout << e.what() << endl;
        }

   return 0;

}

when I run it I don't have print out my message "exception!" but
St9exception


Because you catch the exception by value, so you copy-construct a new
std::exception from the Exception that was thrown, catch the exception
by reference instead and it will work:

  catch (exception& e)

--
Erik Wikstr=F6m


yes I've forgotten that...... so it print 9Exception but not
my msg string may be I didn't override the right what() ?

P.S.
I try to read the source of exception.h and exception.cpp but in my
gcc source I didn't find it!
where are them?

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