What type should I catch if I throw a string literal?

Question

I am writing a pretty simple application in C++ using g++ under Linux and I am trying to throw some raw strings as exceptions (yes, I know, its not a good practise).

Answer 1

The type of a string literal is char const *. There's a (deprecated) conversion to char * provided for backward compatibility with existing code (but you still have to treat it as const -- any attempt at modification gives UB).

As such, code like this should work:

#include 
using namespace std;

int main()
{
  try
  {
    throw "not implemented";

  }
  catch(char const *error)
  {
    cerr<<"Error: "<