[C++] init.c/build_new wrongly implements new-expression

[Alexandre Oliva]

On May 24, 1999, Gabriel Dos_Reis <Gabriel.Dos_Reis@sophia.inria.fr> wrote:

> So that the following ends up with a segmentation fault instead of
> throwing a bad_alloc:

> 	double* p = new double[numeric_limits<size_t>::max()];

It is correct.  It is not the allocation that fails, it's the size
calculation that overflows, thus producing undefined results.

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