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# std::bad_exception

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< cpp‎ | error

Defined in header `<exception>` |  |
class bad_exception; |  |

`std::bad_exception` is the type of the exception thrown by the C++ runtime in the following situations:

1) If a dynamic exception specification is violated and std::unexpected throws or rethrows an exception that still violates the exception specification, but the exception specification allows `std::bad_exception`, `std::bad_exception` is thrown.
2) If std::exception_ptr stores a copy of the caught exception and if the copy constructor of the exception object caught by current_exception throws an exception, the captured exception is an instance of `std::bad_exception`.

Inheritance diagram

### [edit] Member functions

(constructor) | constructs the `bad_exception` object (public member function)
operator= | copies the object (public member function)
what [virtual] | returns the explanatory string (virtual public member function)

## Inherited from std::exception

### Member functions

(destructor) [virtual] | destructs the exception object (virtual public member function of `std::exception`) [edit]
what [virtual] | returns an explanatory string (virtual public member function of `std::exception`) [edit]

### [edit] Example

Run this code

    #include <iostream>
    #include <exception>
    #include <stdexcept>

    void my_unexp() { throw; }

    void test() throw(std::bad_exception)
    {
        throw std::runtime_error("test");
    }

    int main()
    {
        std::set_unexpected(my_unexp);
        try {
             test();
        } catch(const std::bad_exception& e)
        {
            std::cerr << "Caught " << e.what() << '\n';
        }
    }

Output:

    Caught std::bad_exception

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