[Insight-developers] is operator new returning NULL ?

[Williams, Norman K]

I brought that code into ITK from Brains2, and it was written long ago, in a galaxy far far away.  I didn't fix anything that wasn't obviously broken.

If you want to get rid of the NULL checks in cases like that, be my guest.


-----Original Message-----
From: insight-developers-bounces+norman-k-williams=uiowa.edu at itk.org on behalf of Mathieu Malaterre
Sent: Tue 12/11/2007 7:18 AM
To: ITK
Subject: [Insight-developers] is operator new returning NULL ?
 
Hi,

  The other day I was reading through some C code ported to C++ in
Code/IO namely the Siemens/GE4/GE5 stuff and found the following piece
of code:

  GEImageHeader *hdr = new GEImageHeader;
  if(hdr == 0)
    {
    RAISE_EXCEPTION();
    }

  AFAIK operator new never returns NULL, but throw an exception...well
on a standard conforming compiler. so the question is: is the code
simply copy/paste from C code or are there some (VS6 ?) buggy compiler
that do not throw exception ?

thanks,

-- 
Mathieu
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