I want to define an exception which returns int. My code is given below. It's showing error.
class BadLengthException : public exception {
public:
int x;
BadLengthException(int n){
x =n;
}
virtual const int what() const throw () {
return x;
}
};
The error is:
solution.cc:12:22: error: conflicting return type specified for ‘virtual const int BadLengthException::what() const’ virtual const int what() const throw () { ^~~~ In file included from /usr/include/c++/7/exception:38:0, from /usr/include/c++/7/ios:39, from /usr/include/c++/7/ostream:38, from /usr/include/c++/7/iostream:39, from solution.cc:1: /usr/include/c++/7/bits/exception.h:69:5: error: overriding ‘virtual const char* std::exception::what() const’ what() const _GLIBCXX_TXN_SAFE_DYN _GLIBCXX_USE_NOEXCEPT;
virtual
to mark methods in derived classes that override base class virtual member functions, use dedicatedoverride
specifier instead. – paler123