Thread: Compiling error

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    Compiling error

    Code:
    #include <iostream>
    
    int main() {
        try {
            throw std::exception("test");
        } catch(std::exception& e) {
            std::cerr << e.what() << '\n';
        } catch(...) {
            std::cerr << "...\n";
        }
    }
    This compiles under Visual Studio but in g++ it causes an error "error: no matching function for call to `std::exception::exception(const char[5])"

    So why does it work under one compiler but not the other?

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    You are probably using a MSVC compiler extension. std::exception does not have a constructor that takes a string of any sort, though std::logic_error and std::runtime_error have constructors that take a std::string by const reference.

    Oh, and you should #include <exception> for std::exception.
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