Rethrowing exceptions

Question

Why doesn\'t the following doesn\'t handle the exception that was rethrown? I tried all the combinations but none of them would show the output in last catch so I\'m confused!

Answer 1

This should work :

Derived D;


try{

    try {
        throw D;
    } catch ( const Derived &d) {
        throw;
    } catch (const Base &b) {
        cout << "caught!" << endl;
    }

} catch (const Base &b) {
    cout << "caught here!" << endl;
}

As other said, the rethrow will rethrow the same exception out of the catch block.