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# std::overflow_error

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Defined in header `<stdexcept>` |  |
class overflow_error; |  |

Defines a type of object to be thrown as exception. It can be used to report arithmetic overflow errors (that is, situations where a result of a computation is too large for the destination type)

The only standard library components that throw this exception are std::bitset::to_ulong and std::bitset::to_ullong.

The mathematical functions of the standard library components do not throw this exception (mathematical functions report overflow errors as specified in math_errhandling). Third-party libraries, however, use this. For example, boost.math throws `std::overflow_error` if `boost::math::policies::throw_on_error` is enabled (the default setting).

Inheritance diagram

### [edit] Member functions

(constructor) | constructs the exception object (public member function) [edit]

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## std::overflow_error::overflow_error

explicit overflow_error( const std::string& what_arg ); | (1) |
explicit overflow_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::exception` 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) [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]

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