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Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 06:57:39 +0500 (MVT)
From: Prashant TR <prashant_tr AT yahoo DOT com>
To: Niklas Pettersson <npedt97 AT student DOT vxu DOT se>
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Subject: Re: does DJGPP throw bad_alloc if new failes??
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On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Niklas Pettersson wrote:

> Does DJGPP throw bad_alloc if operator new failes? It seems to throw some
> exception because catch (...) catches something uppon failure.

No, if you haven't defined any. It just returns NULL. Check out the
set_new_handler function in new.h. It lets you set an exception handler
for new.

Prashant


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