It is a standard exception that can be thrown by programs. Some components of the standard library also throw exceptions of this type to signal range errors.

It is defined as:

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class overflow_error : public runtime_error {
public:
  explicit overflow_error (const string& what_arg);
};

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class overflow_error : public runtime_error {
public:
  explicit overflow_error (const string& what_arg);
  explicit overflow_error (const char* what_arg);
};

Members

constructor

The string passed as what_arg has the same content as the value returned by member what.

Exception safety

See also

exception

Standard exception class (class)

logic_error

Logic error exception (class)

runtime_error

Runtime error exception (class)

range_error

Range error exception (class)

underflow_error

Underflow error exception (class)