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

[Paul Grenyer]

Hi

> Some systems may compile with exceptions disabled, and therefore can only
> safely use the nothrow version. No, that's not conformant, but, er, that's
> life, too.

So what actually happens? Would you get a compile time error/warning as you
do with RTTI? Or a runtime error? Obviously there isn't going to be a single
answer to this, but what happens in the implementation you're thinking
about?

Regards
Paul

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