Subj : Re: string comparison
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : waking@idirect.com (Wayne A. King)
Date : Mon Nov 24 2003 10:04 pm

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 21:31:00 +0100, maeder@glue.ch (Thomas Maeder [TeamB])
wrote:

>> newstring = new char[ sizeof(passedstring + 1 )] ;
>> assert( newstring != 0 ) ;
>
>This test is moot. This new expression will *never* evaluate to 0. If the
>allocation request can't be served, the new expression causes an exception
>of type std::bad_alloc to be thrown.

That depends on the compiler being used. For many/most/all compilers
which are topical in this particular newsgroup, there is no std::bad_alloc
exception.


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