Re: exception and polymorphism problem
On 16 Mag, 14:05, Markus Moll <markus.m...@esat.kuleuven.be> wrote:
Hi
Zeppe wrote:
josh wrote:
yes I've forgotten that...... so it print 9Exception but not
my msg string may be I didn't override the right what() ?
no, you did. the problem, as Eric said, is that if you don't put the
reference a new std::exception is created by copy-constructor. And for
the standard exception the what behaves differently that for your class.
No, he did not. In std::exception it is
virtual const char* what() const throw();
So it should read:
class Exception : public exception
{
public:
Exception(string m="exception!") : msg(m) {}
~Exception() throw() {}
const char* what() const throw () { return msg.c_str(); }
private:
string msg;
};
The const is part of the function signature and thus necessary for
overriding while without the throw() part the program would be ill-formed.
Markus
yes that was my wrong (and also to make Exception not a reference) now
it works!!!
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