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Subject:	Re: new throwing exception
Date:	Sat, 25 Dec 1999 16:25:25 GMT
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> new seems to throw an exception when there's some trouble allocating
> memory (correct me if I'm wrong), but I can't understand how to catch
> this exception.
>
> Mattias

I've managed to figure out that new throws an exception called bad_alloc
which is defined in <new>, but if I write a program like this:

#include <new>
#include <iostream>
void main(void)
{
   char* foo;

   try {
      foo = new char[1000000000];
      foo[999999999] = 'a';
   }
   catch (bad_alloc e) {
      cout << "Gotcha!" << endl;
   }
}

I get a printout that says "Virtual memory exceeded in 'new'".

Please, can anyone help?

Mattias


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