[boost] Re: Misc library documentation issues

From: Reid Sweatman (reids_at_[hidden])
Date: 1999-07-12 18:44:48

> >Let me ask for a clarification here.  When you say bad_alloc 
> throws delete
> >the user's type, you mean the type that failed of 
> allocation, don't you?
> 
> No.  If allocation fails, the type being allocated never 
> exists, and so
> there is no need to delete it.  What gets deleted is the user's type
> that is being reference counted, since if the reference count cannot
> be allocated, it essentially falls to 0.

Ah.  I hadn't realized we were talking specifically about reference-counted
objects.  I thought it was a statement about the behavior of bad_alloc in
general that I'd never heard of.  Never mind.

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