What are the types of errors the compiler throws on execution of a Cpp program?

Question

when compilation error occurs and when run time error occurs??are there àny other error that the compiler throws?? what is the purpose of the try...catch in CPP??

Answer 1

compile time error
runtime error

Answer 2

There are two main categories of exceptions in C++. The first is compile time and relates to structural and type errors that prevent the compiler from outputting some kind of binary. You cannot try/catch this. Depending on the error you can disable the error via a command line flag or you must fix the offending code.

Runtime exceptions occur when some exceptional state is reached while executing your code. A simple example of this would be when you try to divide by zero. You can use the try/catch block to handle this code if you think it is a possibility.

Try/catch is just a way of gracefully handling errors while your program is running.

Answer 3

Those are the big categories yes however the language provides subcategories of each and you can always implement your own.

Answer 4

compile time and runtime errors... nothing more than that right...thanks James