What does catch(...) does in C++?

[k. mahesh kumar]

Please post your Reply. Thanks in advance

[Christophe Verré]

Catches everything.

[k. mahesh kumar]

Could you please tell me in what way it differ from catch(exception e){}

[Christophe Verré]

catch(MyException e) catches only exception of type MyException. catch(...) catches other exception as well.

[k. mahesh kumar]

Thank you Christophe Verré

[Anand Hariharan]

Christophe Verré wrote:catch(MyException e) catches only exception of type MyException. catch(...) catches other exception as well.

One usually catches exceptions by (const) reference. It is very rare and (when seen in production code) often questionable if one wanted to catch an exception by value. It will needlessly trigger the copy constructor of the exception object, and considering that one is trying to handle an exception, one doesn't want other things in the way that could independently raise exceptions of their own.