libjava test suite keeps getting stuck

[Jeff Sturm]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Joe Buck wrote:
> 
> > It turns out there is very little C++ usage of new/delete in libjava.
> > It is trivial to replace these with malloc/free (patch below).
> 
> This patch changes the behavior.  new throws an exception on allocation
> failure; malloc returns a null pointer.  Of course, you could fix your
> patch to throw the exception, or handle the error in some other way.

Right, thanks.  (I don't know which is worse in this case: ignoring NULL
or not handling the exception.  Either would probably be disastrous.)

I'm not completely convinced these shouldn't be using GC anyway.

Jeff