Re: [Openexr-devel] Relying on exceptions in fuzz tests?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 29 May 2014, Peter Hillman wrote:
> It seems like the OpenEXR library does rather assume that calls to 'new' etc 
> will throw exceptions if they fail, rather than nullptr testing. This is in 
> the library itself, rather than the fuzz tests.

Isn't that what the C++ standard has always said that 'new' should do?

Hardly any modern C++ code (including the standard C++ library) will 
work properly if new does not throw an exception on failure to 
allocate memory.

It seems best to fix/replace the broken compiler.

Bob
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