From: d DOT vrabel AT n-shropshire DOT ac DOT uk (David Vrabel)
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Subject: Re: operator new
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 07:06:39 GMT
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"Lion" <ifestos AT the DOT forthnet DOT gr> wrote:

>Why this piece of code exit with problem?
What error message does it print if any?
>I think, new operator returns 0 if there is no memory available...
The ANSI C++ standard says new should throw an exception when you run
out of memory. But I don't know if this is implemented in GCC yet.

If your getting ``Abort!'' as your message  it could be caused by an
uncaught exception.

>main ()
>{
> int ii;
> for (;;) if (!(ii=new int) break;
>}

David.



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