Is there any advantages to throw other thing that a std::exception( or derivatives types)

Question

Is there any advantages or uses cases to throw other thing that a std::exception( or a derivatives types).

For example throw 1; or throw \"error\";

Answer 1

Per §15.1 [except]:

Exception handling provides a way of transferring control and information from a point in the execution of a thread to an exception handler associated with a point previously passed by the execution.

The word information illustrates everything, it can be everything such as objects, numbers, ... .

There is nothing in standard that says you must just throw std::exception. In the other words, maybe someone wants to throw his own exception objects.

Maybe someone wants to use exception-handling to handle something far from normal exceptions.