Program doesn't stop after exception

Question

I am using eclipse in Ubuntu 12.04. I use some exceptions in my program and when they are caught it gives me cout correctly. But the program continues to the end. Is there a way

Answer 1

To stop execution of a program after catching an exception, just call std::exit() in the catch block:

#include 
#include 

int main()
try
{
  throw 42;
}
catch(int i)
{
  std::cout << "Caught int: " << i << ". Exiting...\n";
  std::exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}

Live demo here.

This works outside of main as well. You can substitute EXIT_FAILURE with any int value you want, portably in the 0-255 range.