From: Warren Young Date: October 11 2005 4:15pm Subject: Re: Exceptions in mysql++ List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/plusplus/5025 Message-Id: <434BE508.6070805@etr-usa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jonatan Taminau wrote: > catch(exception& e) { > cout << "DAMN!" << endl; > } What does it say if you replace that cout statement with: cout << typeid(e).name << endl; ? (Syntax may be wrong...adjust as necessary.)