Catch All Exceptions in C++

Catch All Exceptions in C++

-> In some situations, we may not be able to anticipate types of exceptions and therefore may not be able to design independent catch handlers to catch them. In such circumstances, we can force a catch statement to catch all exceptions instead of a certain type alone. This could be achieved by defining the catch statement using ellipses as follows:

  catch (. . .) 
  {
                  // statement for processing
                  // all exceptions
                ...
   }

   // illustrates the functioning of catch(. . .)

// C++ program to catching all exceptions.

#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
void test(int x)
{
try
{
if(x==0) throw x;     // int
if(x==-1) throw 'x';  // char
if(x==1) throw 1.0;   // float
}
catch(...)
{
cout<<"Caught an exception \n";
}
}

int main()
{
cout<<"Testing Generic catch \n";
test(-1);
test(0);
test(1);
return 0;

}

OUTPUT:

Testing Generic catch
Caught an exception
Caught an exception

Caught an exception