[Exceptional C++ Style] Item 23: To new, Perchance to throw, Part 2: Pragmatic Issues in Memory Management

[David Nash]

Er, this is item 23.  Anyone mind if I change the subject line?

> Perhaps I was a little loose in my wording.  It's memory allocation 
> that's the topic of this item, which in-place new can't fail 
> at.  Yes, 
> the constructor could throw an exception, but that's a 
> different class 
> of error to memory exhaustion ... 

I believe Herb makes this very point in the book.

Dave
(showing up after some absence, in preparation for item 24!)