missing g++ warning about bad allocation

[Martin Ettl]

Hello,

compiling the following code with g++-4.4.0 on Ubuntu Linux (Jaunty):


int main()
{
	double * d = new double[-100];
}

compiles without warning. I used following compilation flags: (-W -Wall -Wextra -pedantic).

Exectuting the compiled programm gives:

./test 
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
  what():  std::bad_alloc
Aborted

Is there a reason why g++ does not warn about this? 

Best regards

Ettl Martin



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