[#BloombergLP-bslstl-BadWeakPtr]
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Exception type thrown when a `weak_ptr` is locked after its managed object is destroyed.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslstl_badweakptr.h>`

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class BadWeakPtr
    : public std::exception
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== Description

This `class` provides an exception type thrown when a `weak_ptr` object is locked after the managed object has been destroyed. This class conforms to the C++11 standard specification of `std::bad_weak_ptr`.

== Base Classes

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|===
| Name| Description
| `std::exception`
| Base class for all library exceptions.
|===

== Member Functions

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| Name| Description
| xref:BloombergLP/bslstl/BadWeakPtr/2constructor.adoc[`BadWeakPtr`]         [.small]#[constructor]#
| Create a `BadWeakPtr` object. Note that this function is explicitly user‐declared, to make it simple to declare `const` objects of this type.
| xref:BloombergLP/bslstl/BadWeakPtr/2destructor.adoc[`~BadWeakPtr`] [.small]#[destructor]# [.small]#[virtual]#
| Destroy this object.
| xref:BloombergLP/bslstl/BadWeakPtr/operator_assign-00.adoc[`operator=`] 
| Assign to this object the value of the specified `rhs` exception.
| xref:BloombergLP/bslstl/BadWeakPtr/what.adoc[`what`]  [.small]#[virtual]#
| Return a pointer to the string literal "bad_weak_ptr".
|===



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