On Sep 7, 2013, at 3:33 AM, Marc Glisse <marc.gli...@inria.fr> wrote: > this patch teaches the compiler that operator new, when it can throw, isn't > allowed to return a null pointer.
You sure: @item -fcheck-new @opindex fcheck-new Check that the pointer returned by @code{operator new} is non-null before attempting to modify the storage allocated. This check is normally unnecessary because the C++ standard specifies that @code{operator new} only returns @code{0} if it is declared @samp{throw()}, in which case the compiler always checks the return value even without this option. In all other cases, when @code{operator new} has a non-empty exception specification, memory exhaustion is signalled by throwing @code{std::bad_alloc}. See also @samp{new (nothrow)}. ?