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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.