C++: operator new and disabled exceptions

[Christophe LYON]

Hello,

I am compiling a C++ application, which uses the 'new' operator, with
exceptions disabled (-fno-exceptions).

Yet, the new operator called is the one that throws an exception in case
of failure. Why is it so ? Isn't it inconsistent with the 
-fno-exceptions flag?

I imagined that compiling with -fno-exceptions would make the compiler
generate calls to new(nothrow) instead.

In my case, replacing all calls to new to new(nothrow) in the
application is not an option.

Thanks,

Christophe.