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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: How to handle Out-of-Memory in Konqueror?
From:       Rolf Magnus <ramagnus () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-02-25 12:59:02
Message-ID: 200402251354.38867.ramagnus () kde ! org
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On Wednesday 25 February 2004 11:12, Luciano Montanaro wrote:

> > First thing: I will have to catch the exception? Or is it enough to check
> > for zero as return value from new() ?
>
> new always returns a valid pointer unless you use nothrow

Or unless - which is by default the case in KDE AFAIK - exceptions are 
switched off through the compiler command line.

> (e.g. QString pippo = new(nothrow) QString(1000); will return 0 if the
> space can't be allocated.)

No, that will produce a compile error ;-)
And you don't really want to dynamically create QStrings.
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