bad_alloc Class
Visual Studio 2015
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The class describes an exception thrown to indicate that an allocation request did not succeed.
class bad_alloc : public exception {
bad_alloc();
virtual ~bad_alloc();
};
The value returned by what is an implementation-defined C string. None of the member functions throw any exceptions.
Header: <new>
Namespace: std
// bad_alloc.cpp
// compile with: /EHsc
#include<new>
#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
int main() {
char* ptr;
try {
ptr = new char[(~unsigned int((int)0)/2) - 1];
delete[] ptr;
}
catch( bad_alloc &ba) {
cout << ba.what( ) << endl;
}
}
bad allocation
Header: <new>
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