From: d DOT vrabel AT n-shropshire DOT ac DOT uk (David Vrabel)
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Subject: What does new do when memory is exhausted?
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 08:02:52 GMT
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The ANSI C++ standard states that new should throw an exception when
out of memory.

Is this the case with GCC 2.8.1? If so what exception is it?  Is it
bad_alloc?

David.

David Vrabel  d DOT vrabel AT n-shropshire DOT ac DOT uk
A poor student (aren't they all) at:
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Oswestry, Shropshire, UK