The class error_category serves as a base class for types used to identify the source and encoding of a particular category of error code. Classes may be derived from error_category to support categories of errors in addition to those defined in this International Standard. Such classes shall behave as specified in this subclause. [ Note: error_category objects are passed by reference, and two such objects are equal if they have the same address. This means that applications using custom error_category types should create a single object of each such type. — end note ]
namespace std {
class error_category {
public:
constexpr error_category() noexcept;
virtual ~error_category();
error_category(const error_category&) = delete;
error_category& operator=(const error_category&) = delete;
virtual const char* name() const noexcept = 0;
virtual error_condition default_error_condition(int ev) const noexcept;
virtual bool equivalent(int code, const error_condition& condition) const noexcept;
virtual bool equivalent(const error_code& code, int condition) const noexcept;
virtual string message(int ev) const = 0;
bool operator==(const error_category& rhs) const noexcept;
bool operator!=(const error_category& rhs) const noexcept;
bool operator<(const error_category& rhs) const noexcept;
};
const error_category& generic_category() noexcept;
const error_category& system_category() noexcept;
} // namespace std
Effects: Destroys an object of class error_category.
virtual const char* name() const noexcept = 0;
Returns: A string naming the error category.
virtual error_condition default_error_condition(int ev) const noexcept;
Returns: error_condition(ev, *this).
virtual bool equivalent(int code, const error_condition& condition) const noexcept;
Returns: default_error_condition(code) == condition.
virtual bool equivalent(const error_code& code, int condition) const noexcept;
Returns: *this == code.category() && code.value() == condition.
virtual string message(int ev) const = 0;
Returns: A string that describes the error condition denoted by ev.
constexpr error_category() noexcept;
Effects: Constructs an object of class error_category.
bool operator==(const error_category& rhs) const noexcept;
Returns: this == &rhs.
bool operator!=(const error_category& rhs) const noexcept;
Returns: !(*this == rhs).
bool operator<(const error_category& rhs) const noexcept;
Returns: less<const error_category*>()(this, &rhs).
[ Note: less ([comparisons]) provides a total ordering for pointers. — end note ]
virtual const char* name() const noexcept = 0;
Returns: A string naming the error category.
virtual error_condition default_error_condition(int ev) const noexcept;
Returns: An object of type error_condition that corresponds to ev.
virtual bool equivalent(int code, const error_condition& condition) const noexcept;
Returns: true if, for the category of error represented by *this, code is considered equivalent to condition; otherwise, false.
virtual bool equivalent(const error_code& code, int condition) const noexcept;
Returns: true if, for the category of error represented by *this, code is considered equivalent to condition; otherwise, false.
const error_category& generic_category() noexcept;
Returns: A reference to an object of a type derived from class error_category. All calls to this function shall return references to the same object.
Remarks: The object's default_error_condition and equivalent virtual functions shall behave as specified for the class error_category. The object's name virtual function shall return a pointer to the string "generic".
const error_category& system_category() noexcept;
Returns: A reference to an object of a type derived from class error_category. All calls to this function shall return references to the same object.
Remarks: The object's equivalent virtual functions shall behave as specified for class error_category. The object's name virtual function shall return a pointer to the string "system". The object's default_error_condition virtual function shall behave as follows:
If the argument ev corresponds to a POSIX errno value posv, the function shall return error_condition(posv, generic_category()). Otherwise, the function shall return error_condition(ev, system_category()). What constitutes correspondence for any given operating system is unspecified. [ Note: The number of potential system error codes is large and unbounded, and some may not correspond to any POSIX errno value. Thus implementations are given latitude in determining correspondence. — end note ]