I have a C++ program in which I am trying to allocate an unreasonably-large character array with new[]. I know it's unreasonably large - I'm a developer testing something. It's 6.3MB -- not ridiculous, but in excess of the memory available (apparently).
It appears to me that new is simply returning a NULL pointer, with no error indication. That seems inconsistent with the C++ manual which says "If you do not specify your own set_new_handler() function, new throws an exception of type std::bad_alloc." I have an exception handler that is known to work generally and it is not getting called. I do not call set_new_handler(). Am I missing something? Do others know that new generally fails as documented? z/OS V1R13. POSIX(ON). Charles ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
