On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 11:17:25AM -0500, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > Pedro Alves <pal...@redhat.com> writes: > > > [...] > > malloc will fail, new will throw bad_alloc, and GCC will abort and > > maybe generate a core dump, instead of gracefully printing > > something like: > > cc1: out of memory allocating NNNNNNNN bytes ... > > and existing with error status. > > Consider having the main() function catch bad_alloc etc. and print > prettier error messages than the builtin uncaught-exception aborter?
GCC is built with -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti, so no catching... Jakub