runtime hook for Crash on Error

[Lars T. Kyllingstad]

On Friday, 1 June 2012 at 12:29:27 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Jun 2012 04:48:27 -0400, Dmitry Olshansky 
> <dmitry.olsh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't agree that OutOfMemory is critical:
>> 	--> make it an exception ?
>
> No.  What we need is a non-throwing version of malloc that 
> returns NULL.  (throwing version can wrap this).  If you want 
> to throw an exception, then throw it there (or use enforce).

With some sugar:

     auto a = nothrow new Foo; // Returns null on OOM

Then, ordinary new can be disallowed in nothrow code.

IMO, failing assertions and out-of-bounds errors should just 
abort(), or, as Sean suggests, call a special handler.

-Lars