Exception thrown on failure allocating memory
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bad_alloc |
Type of the exceptions thrown by the standard definitions of operator new and operator new[] when they fail to allocate the requested storage space.
This class is derived from exception. See the exception class for the member definitions of standard exceptions.
Its member what returns a null-terminated character sequence identifying the exception.
Example
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// bad_alloc example
#include <iostream>
#include <new>
using namespace std;
int main () {
try
{
int* myarray= new int[10000];
}
catch (bad_alloc& ba)
{
cerr << "bad_alloc caught: " << ba.what() << endl;
}
return 0;
}
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Possible output:
bad_alloc caught: bad allocation
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See also
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