Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/03/07/23:00:24
From: | "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp
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Subject: | Re: GCC Bug (HELP ME!!!!!)
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Date: | Sat, 07 Mar 1998 22:30:28 -0500
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Organization: | Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt.
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Message-ID: | <350210D4.2AE7@cs.com>
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References: | <01bd4887$162bdc80$7348a5c6 AT technoid>
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To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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DJ-Gateway: | from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp
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Luke Bishop wrote:
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> 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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