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Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 13:09:18 -0300
From: salvador <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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Subject: Re: memory
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pavenis AT lanet DOT lv wrote:

> On 9 Jun 99, at 10:54, salvador wrote:
>
> > Mattias Eklöf wrote:
> >
> > > > how can I make an array with c++ in dos with 1Meg?
> > >
> > > char* pArray = new char[1024*1024];
> > > if (pArray == 0) cerr << "Oops...! Time to buy more memory!" << endl;
> >
> > ^^^^ Hmmm... I think new won't return 0 but instead will rise an
> > exception.
> > Can anybody confirm?
> >
>
> Depends on compiler version. At least prereleases of upcomming
> gcc-2.95 even complains on attempt to return NULL pointer from
> operator new. It says one should throw exception.
>
> At least when new_handler is not specified gcc-2.95 prerelease
> throws exception. I only looked at sources, not really try to
> trigger this error.
>
> Perhaps earlier versions will simply return NULL.

Do you know what version  of the spec started with it? I'll check the one
I have, but I heard it from a lot of sources recently.

SET

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