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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: About memory allocation failures....
From:       Guillaume Laurent <glaurent () telegraph-road ! org>
Date:       2002-03-23 8:25:51
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On Saturday 23 March 2002 03:04, Schmidt, John wrote:

> The "standard" as set by Bjarne indicates
> bad_alloc
> is the default, but that does not seem to be the case for all compilers.

You don't say. Welcome to C++.

> Setting up your own handler (or using nothrow) IS splitting hairs, but
> saying
> it's an advanced technique is like saying coding a destructor for
> pthread_key_create() is advanced?

No. The latter is an extremely common idiom, applying the RAII "Ressource 
Acquisition Is Initialisation" principle.

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					Guillaume.
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