While loop with try catch fails at bad cin input

Question

I can\'t seem to figure out why this falls into a loop after getting non-int input. I\'ve tried cin.flush(), which doesn\'t seem to exist, cin.clear(), which seems like it s

Answer 1

It looks like you would be better off with iostream's native exceptions. Enable with

cin.exceptions( ios::failbit );

try {
   …
} catch( ios_base::failure & ) {
  cin.clear();
  …
}

Never, ever throw an an object not derived from std::exception, and especially not a native type like char*.