Thread: Check the new operator's return value?

Hey all,

Very simple question. Is it necessary to check the return value of the new operator when allocating memory, to ensure that memory was allocated correctly, like in C with malloc()? I've seen some articles that seem to contradict themselves a bit, and even talk about overloading the new/delete operators to throw exceptions using std::bad_alloc(), but I just wondered if it was needed.

Example code:

Code:

int *foo = new int;

/* Is this check needed? */
if (foo == NULL)
...

Thanks in advance,

--John.

Ah thank you very much. I'll use nothrow as I've always liked the NULL pointer method.

Thanks mate,

--John.