The Standard Exception Hierarchy

The library implements the two-category error model described above with a set of classes. These classes are defined in the stdexcept header file. They can be used to catch exceptions thrown by the library and to throw exceptions from your own code.

The classes are related through inheritance. The inheritance hierarchy looks like this:

exception
     logic_error
        domain_error
       invalid_argument
       length_error
       out_of_range
    runtime_error
       range_error
       overflow_error  

Classes logic_error and runtime_error inherit from class exception. All other exception classes inherit from either logic_error or runtime_error.