Why am I getting “Invalid Allocation Size: 4294967295 Bytes” instead of an std::bad_alloc exception?

Question

I wrote the following piece of code to allocate memory for an array:

try {
    int n = 0;
    cin >> n;
    double *temp = new double[n];
    ...
}
cat         


        

Answer 1

If you are using Visual Studio for building, you may want to enable "large memory allocation" in Linker settings.

Go to project Properties -> Linker -> System -> Enable Large Addresses set to "Yes (/LARGEADDRESSAWARE)"