The C++ exception system is similar to Java's, especially in syntax. Exceptions in a try block are caught by the associated catch blocks. Some differences from Java:

1. C++ uses exceptions much more sparingly than Java. The standard libraries are in rather less of a hurry to throw them.
2. The C++ standard libraries throw types derived from std::exception.
3. Most standard exceptions you will actually encounter are derived from std::logic_error or std::runtime_error.
4. Throwing a new object Java-style pretty much never makes sense. In C++,
   throw runtime_error("Something Went Wrong");
   not the Java-style
   throw new RuntimeException("This Was Not Supposed To Happen");
5. Catching is usually by reference.
   catch(exception &e);
6. Exceptions do not convert to string, but the standard ones have a what() method instead.

While the standard libraries throw only classes derived from std::exception, the language allows the throwing of any type at all. This is not a very useful feature, and we will not explore it.

Plain C does not support exceptions.

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