Inheritance diagram for std::exception:

| Public Member Functions | |
| exception () throw () | |
| virtual | ~exception () throw () | 
| virtual const char * | what () const throw () | 
This is the base class for all exceptions thrown by the standard library, and by certain language expressions. You are free to derive your own exception classes, or use a different hierarchy, or to throw non-class data (e.g., fundamental types).
Definition at line 54 of file exception.
| virtual std::exception::~exception | ( | ) | throw ()  [virtual] | 
| virtual const char* std::exception::what | ( | ) | const  throw ()  [virtual] | 
Returns a C-style character string describing the general cause of the current error.
Reimplemented in std::ios_base::failure, std::logic_error, std::runtime_error, and std::tr1::bad_weak_ptr.
 1.4.7
 1.4.7