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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Help-memory allocation
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 16:56:16 +0200
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Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com> writes:

>>How to check whether the memory is allocated or not when using new
>>operator?in other words, what the operator "new" returns if memory
>>allocation fails?
>
> I'd say, it raises the Storage_Error exception.

In conforming implementations, yes.  However, many Ada implementations
will only raise Storage_Error at some later point in the execution of
the program ("commit on allocate" vs. "commit on use").