Force an allocation failure.



#include <iostream>
#include <new>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
  double *p;

  // this will eventually run out of memory
  do {
    try { 
      p = new double[100000];
    } catch (bad_alloc xa) {
      cout << "Allocation failure.\n";
      return 1;
    }
    cout << "Allocation OK.\n";
  } while(p);

  return 0;
}

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