Re: new returning 0
Noah Roberts wrote:
It is my understanding that this behavior has long been deprecated and
is not standard. That is the creation of an array of objects using new
returning 0 instead of throwing an exception. I'm not the one dealing
with the code but I told that person he might expect an exception and
thus sent him on a wild goose chase. Where did I go wrong?
As far as I know there's no override of operator new. There's no
(std::nothrow). Compiler is msvc++ 8.
std::nothrow is defined in <new>
#include <new>
#include <stdexcept>
#include <iostream>
#include <ostream>
int main()
{
int *pint = 0;
try
{
pint = new int[10];
}
catch (std::bad_alloc& e)
{
std::cout << "new failed: "
<< e.what()
<< std::endl;
}
delete[] pint;
pint = new(std::nothrow) int[10];
if (!pint)
{
std::cout << "new(std::nothrow) failed" << std::endl;
}
delete[] pint;
return 0;
}
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