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### 48. Use of non-existent exception constructor

Section: 29.5.2.2.1 [ios.failure] Status: TC1 Submitter: Matt Austern Opened: 1998-06-21 Last modified: 2021-06-06

Priority: Not Prioritized

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Discussion:

27.4.2.1.1, paragraph 2, says that class failure initializes the base class, exception, with exception(msg). Class exception (see 18.6.1) has no such constructor.

Proposed resolution:

Replace 99 [ios::failure], paragraph 2, with

> EFFECTS: Constructs an object of class `failure`.