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schinkten1
schinkten1

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Basic Error Handling in VS 2015

I have used stack overflow countless times, but in my quest to teach myself c++, I find it's time to sign up and be part of the community. My question is about chapter 5 in Bjarne Stroustrup's Principles and Practices using c++. The book examples, along with the lecture slides I've found online, show the error handling as follows...

    if (a <= 0 || b <= 0)
    {
        error("bad values");
    }
    cout << "the area is " << area(a, b)<<'\n';

I have done lots of research, thinking maybe it's a syntax thing that has changed in VS 15 or maybe its something wrong with the header file the book has us create. The error message I get is...

Unhandled exception at 0x74E5C42D in ConsoleApplication5.exe: Microsoft C++ exception: std::runtime_error at memory location 0x002CF5E4.

Any help would be hugely appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 94

Answers (1)

Some programmer dude
Some programmer dude

Reputation: 409166

std::runtime_error is a standard exception (see this error handling reference for more standard exceptions). My guess without seeing the error function is that it throws the std::runtime_error exception.

In other words, it's nothing specific to VS2015 or C++ in general, it's simply how error handling was designed for the examples in the book.

Upvotes: 2

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