From: mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl (Ruiter de M)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: new operator
Date: 20 Feb 1998 13:41:03 GMT
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Luke Bishop (lbishop AT calvin DOT stemnet DOT nf DOT ca) wrote:
> No, worse still.  DJGPP's LIBC standard new handler dumps you to DOS if it
> cannot allocate the memory.  To avoid this, you should overload the new
> operator and call malloc manually inside the overloaded operator.

Uhm, I'm really not an expert, but isn't installing a new-handler
(add_new_handler or something?) the way to go? New should never (ever)
return NULL, according to the standard.

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