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		gpderetta on Feb 23, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Current hardware trends make C++ exceptions harder... FWIW, constructors do not "create" (I assume you mean allocate) memory. That's the job of operator new. A constructor, given a block of untyped memory, will construct an object in it.

worik on Feb 23, 2022 [–]

Right.

Been a long time.

I would still expect a constructor to return. How can you tell if it failed?

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