Exceptions¶

Generally, functions that throw XAD exceptions give mostly the strong guarantee, i.e. the state of the objects involved is unchanged and operations can continue as if the throwing function was not called.

Some functions can only give the weak guarantee, i.e., the object is in an undefined state but the application can recover be re-initializing the object. This is notably the case if the user-defined CheckpointCallback::computeAdjoint() function throws an exception.

XAD defines the following exception types.

class Exception : public std::runtime_error¶

Base class of all XAD exceptions

const char *what() const¶

Returns the message of the exception (inherited from std::runtime_error)

class TapeAlreadyActive : public Exception¶

Exception that is thrown when a tape is attempted to be activated while another one is already active for the current thread.

class OutOfRange : public Exception¶

Exception thrown when an argument is out of the acceptable range.

class DerivativesNotInitialized : public Exception¶

Exception thrown if adjoints are attempted to be computed without setting at least one derivative first.

class NoTapeException : public Exception¶

Exception thrown if an AReal object is created without an active tape for the current thread (debug-mode only).