On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 06:14:59AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > > More to the point, it doesn't matter how it's implemented, and the user > > should not care. It only matters that > > > > std::bad_alloc foo; > > std::cerr << foo.what() << std::endl; > > > > works, which the submitter didn't apparently try. Looking at the original
Apparently whoever said this hasn't seen the bug report, and it got rephrased somewhere along the line. I was wrong in my assumption that std::bad_alloc should override what(), but the problem remains: the message coming out of what(), "St9bad_alloc" is incomprehensible to a normal user. Jeroen
