Out of memory with new??

I have a function that uses calloc to allocate memory in my program. If it runs out of memory if gives an error message.
The function is as follows:

Code:

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void *ckalloc(size_t bytes)
{
    register void *ret;

    if ((ret = calloc(bytes, sizeof(char))) == NULL)
    {
        fatal("Out of memory\n");
    }
    else
    {
        return ret;
    }

    return ret;
}

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I am going to change the code to use new instead of calloc. The function calloc returns a null pointer if it cannot allocate memory. How do I know if "new" has run out of memory?

Also is there a way in C++ using new to reallocate memory (similar to realloc)?

Thanks
Mark

new will set the pointer to NULL if it cannot allocate enough memory:

Code:

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...
char* pMyP = new char[120];
if (pMyP == NULL)
{
        std::cerr << "Memory Exhausted!" << std::endl;
        // exit etc here
}

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Thanks for the reply.

I thought new threw an exception and that you have to use 'nothrow' or something like that to get the desired effect

Quote:

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Standard C++ states that operator new should throw an exception of type std::bad_alloc when it fails. This is different from previous stages of C++ and it means two important things:

1. If your code does not contain a catch statement to handle an std::bad_alloc exception, your program will crash whenever new fails, even if that exception occurs deep down in some library routine you never knew was there.

2. Testing whether the pointer returned from new == 0 is completely useless; ... in cases of failure, the thrown exception will abort the current thread of execution right from where it was thrown, so the next lines of code will not be executed

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http://www.devx.com/tips/Tip/5807

Code:

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#include <iostream>
using namespace std;


int main() {
       
        try
        {
                double* p = new double[100];
                //throw bad_alloc();
        }
        catch(bad_alloc& rEx)
        {
                cerr<<"Memory Exhausted\n";
        }

        return 0;
}

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Or:

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <new>
using namespace std;

int main() {
       
        double* p = new(nothrow) double[100];
       
        if(!p)
        {
                cerr<<"Memory Exhausted!\n";
        }

        return 0;
}

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http://www.informit.com/guides/conte...eqNum=170&rl=1