Determining exception type after the exception is caught?

Question

Is there a way to determine the exception type even know you caught the exception with a catch all?

Example:

try
{
   SomeBigFunction();
}
catch(...)         


        

Answer 1

There is no standard, portable way to do this. Here's a non-portable way to do it on GCC and clang

#include 
#include 

const char* currentExceptionTypeName()
{
    int status;
    return abi::__cxa_demangle(abi::__cxa_current_exception_type()->name(), 0, 0, &status);
}

int main()
{
    try {
        throw std::string();
    } catch (...) {
        std::cout<<"Type of caught exception is "<

Output:

Type of caught exception is std::__cxx11::basic_string, std::allocator >