[Exceptional C++ Style] Item 22: To new, Perchance to throw, Part 2: Pragmatic Issues in Memory Management

[Adrian Fagg]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: effective-cpp-bounces at accu.org
> [mailto:effective-cpp-bounces at accu.org]On Behalf Of Jez Higgins

Good summary, but...

> Most forms of new report failure by throwing a bad_alloc
> exception.  The
> nothrow new reports a failure by return a null pointer, it wouldn't
> fulfil its guarantee otherwise.  (In-place new cannot fail.)

Your confidence in in-place new is surely misplaced. I mean yes, it can't
fail to allocate memory, since it doesn't, but the constructor can still
fail can't it?


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Adrian

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