Re: A solution for the allocation failures problem


"Ian Collins" <ian-news@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
As I said before, it's very hard and therefore error prone to write
exception safe code with the mechanisms C provides for all of the
reasons it's very hard to use multiple points of return. Square that
when exceptions can escape out of functions.

I'd agree here.
Exceptions simplify the callee at the expense of more work in the caller. In fact they often make the interfaces too difficult to use.
However if you have a chain of out-of-memory returns you are effectively handcoding the C++ excpetion mechanism, so you lose the syntaxtical conveneience as well.

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