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Re: Sv: Memory allocators






>>(BTW - how do you handle out-of-memory situations?)
>>
>Well, doesn't new throw an exception if it fails? I'm not catching any
>exceptions from new, so I handle out-of-memory exactly like new does.

I wouldn't really on new throwing an exception  unless you have explicitly
set the new handler to do this. I think that most implementations of new
just
return NULL if memory allocation failed. At least this is what happens with
visual c++.

Peter Burns