How to catch divide-by-zero error in Visual Studio 2008 C++?

Question

How can I catch a divide-by-zero error (and not other errors; and to be able to access exception information) in Visual Studio 2008 C++?

I tried this:

Answer 1

Try the following code:

try
{ 
  const int j=0;
  if (j == 0) { throw std::exception("j was 0"); } 
  const int i= 1/j;    
}
catch(std::exception& e)
{ 
  printf("%s %s\n", e.what());  
}
catch(...)
{ 
  printf("generic exception"); 
}

Of course, if you're OK doing this without exceptions, you could do:

const int j = 0;
if (j == 0)
{
  /* do something about the bad pre-condition here */
}
else
{
  const int i = 1 / j;
}

Edit in response to clarification: you'll have to figure out what input it is that you're handing the third party that causes them to divide by zero before-hand, and handle that before ever calling their function.