nothrow or exception?

Question

I am a student and I have small knowledge on C++, which I try to expand. This is more of a philosophical question.. I am not trying to implement something.

Since

Answer 1

In Symbian C++ it works the other way around. If you want an exception thrown when OOM you have to do

T* t = new(ELeave) T();

And you're right about the logic of throwing a new exception when OOM being strange. A scenario that is manageable suddenly becomes a program termination.