From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: GCC Bug (HELP ME!!!!!)
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 1998 22:30:28 -0500
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Luke Bishop wrote:
> 
>         When the default NEW fails in DJGPP, it just dumps to DOS saying "virtual
> memory exceeded" or somesuch.  NULL is never returned (but the current ANSI
> says that it should be).

Is this true?  In my understanding, new is supposed to throw an
exception or terminate the program if it cannot allocate memory.  All
compilers that I know of have this behavior in the default new operator.

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