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Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 12:30:56 -0500
To: Anthony DOT Appleyard AT umist DOT ac DOT uk
From: Peter Palotas <blizzar AT hem1 DOT passagen DOT se>
Subject: Re: new operator
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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At 07.30 1998-02-17 GMT, you wrote:
>  mwallace AT wiltel DOT com (Michael Wallace x3738) wrote:-
>> In DJGPP, does the new operator throw an exception if it cannot allocate
the
>> requested memory? Or does it just return a NULL value.? Mike
>
>  It returns 0, plainly, simply, thankfully.

I've never seen `new´ return NULL in DJGPP, thankfully! Because the C++
standard says that `new´ is not allowed to return NULL (unless nothrow is
used, but that's not implemented yet I think).


-- Peter Palotas alias Blizzar -- blizzar AT hem1 DOT passagen DOT se --

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