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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: A note to exceptions && some notes to codesize
From:       Uwe Thiem <uwe () uwix ! alt ! na>
Date:       1999-06-10 23:31:07
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On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> On Mon, 07 Jun 1999, Mario Weilguni wrote:
> >Somebody mentioned here that exceptions can be used to report "no-more-memory"
> >for C++. According to the GNU info for gcc, this is not necessary, since the C++
> >standard requires that "new" never returns NULL. 
> 
> Have you read the whole story? new never returns NULL because it throws an
> exception of type bad_alloc if there's not enough memory! So exceptions *ARE*
> used to report out-of-memory situations and exceptions *MUST* be used to
> *handle* them!

Hannes, this means that the whole CHECK_PTR() exercise after a "new"
is useless?  Grrr.

Uwe

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