How can I determine the current exception in a catch (…) block? [duplicate]

Answer 1

Like alemjerus already said: current_exception works only for stl exceptions. To get various stl errors you could also write:

#include 
#include  //ecxeption (base class)
#include        //bad_alloc
#include   //bad_cast und bad_typeid
#include        //ios_base::failure    

...

try
{
  ...
}
catch(std::exception& e)
{
  cerr<<"Error: "<