how to catch out of memory exception in c++?

Question

can anyone please tell me how to catch out of memory exception?

for ex.

try
{
    while(true)
    {
        int i = new int;
    }
}
catch( ? <---         


        

Answer 1

catch (std::bad_alloc& ba){
    cerr << "bad_alloc caught: " << ba.what() << endl;
}

As a note you should read bdonlan's comment. The call to cerr may very well fail. Mark Ransom's suggestion in his answer is a good strategy to mitigate this issue.