egcs-1.1a: new don't throw bad_alloc

[Ryszard Kabatek <rysio at rumcajs dot chemie dot uni-halle dot de>]

I installed the egcs-1.1a (with static libs) into a 'egcs' directory.
I still have the gcc 2.7.2.3 and egcs-2.90.27 980315 (egcs-1.0.2 release).
My configuration:
Linux (RedHat 5.1), Pentium II
binutils 2.9.1.0.4

The operator new don't throw bad_alloc if the allocation fails.

eg++ main.cc
a.out
Segmentation fault (core dumped).

// main.cc
# include <iostream.h>
# include <exception>

int main()
{
  try {
     char* p = new char[4000000000UL];
     p[1000] = 'x';
     delete [] p;
  }
  catch (exception& exc) {   
     cerr << exc.what() << '\n';
  }
}


Ryszard Kabatek

Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Department of Physical Chemistry
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e-mail: kabatek@chemie.uni-halle.de