Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mo
From: mo@uunet.UU.NET (Mike O'Dell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: malloc() failures and exception catching
Message-ID: <4677@uunet.UU.NET>
Date: 2 Jan 88 03:56:40 GMT
Organization: UUNET Communications Services, Arlington, VA
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Keep in mind, folks, that on many, many systems,
printf() calls malloc() to do its formatting so
printing a message inside a _new_handler is complete
and instantaneous recursive death.

I discovered this the hard way when I wrote a 
malloc() which had an additional interface (lmalloc())
which could allocate large objects and would return
pointers that would work with
huge memory model programs.  Debugging is tricky in
these circumstances, particuarly if <stdio> uses 
malloc() too.... 

That was the time I almost threw a PC/AT3270 out a window.

	-Mike O'Dell