std::bad_alloc is the type of exception thrown when memory allocation fails in a C++ program
In C++ when operator new or std::allocator cannot allocate memory an exception of type std::bad_alloc will be thrown.
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std::bad_alloc: determining the buffer size in Eigen
I use Eigen's matrix format to read a previously acquired multi-dimensional data:
Eigen::Matrix dummyData;
and later on after knowing my data size:
dummyData.resize(PackSize, 12);
PackSize could be in order…
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What to do if I get std::bad_alloc?
Creates 2d array of organism class pointers:
try{
world = new Organism**[worldSizeX];
for (int x = 0; x < worldSizeX; x++){
world[x] = new Organism*[worldSizeY];
// INITATES world ARRAY
for (int y = 0; y <…
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How to solve bad alloc() runtime error?
I am getting the std::bad alloc() exception in a code I have written. According to other answers on SO, I should free the dynamically allocated memory but the exception remains. Any leads on how I can solve it?
I am attaching the function where the…
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C++ bad_alloc thrown in a constructor
When a bad_alloc exception is thrown in a constructor, in which multiple objects are created, what must be done to clean up the memory. Ex.
class Object
{
private:
A * a;
B * b;
public:
Object()
{
a= new A();
b=…
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Bad_alloc exception when using new for a struct c++
I am writing a query processor which allocates large amounts of memory and tries to find matching documents. Whenever I find a match, I create a structure to hold two variables describing the document and add it to a priority queue. Since there is…
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Strange std::bad_alloc in an already-created vector
I'm running on a std::bad_alloc error. As far as I know and as I've seen researching on StackOverflow this can be caused by a lack of the necessary memory to perform an action or because there's some kind of corrupted datastructure (as explained…
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std::bad_alloc when allocating a new vector - what can I do
I have a Problem.
I have a huge c++-project that I change at a few points to meet my requirements.
I load more data than expected and at some point in this program there is a new vector allocated with the size of the number of data multiplied by…
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Program crashes - bad_alloc when creating new char array
I have a C++ function that splits a char array into multiple char arrays when it encounters a delimiter. For some reason, when saving the third split array the program just crashes and sometimes returns an std::bad_alloc exception.
char **…
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Unhandled exception bad_alloc at memory location
In c++ a bad_alloc happen while assigning memory, or at least that was what I understood, but now I get this error while reading memory from an array. I create the array:
int * possible = new int[ suma ];
and then i got two for cycles, where I…
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std::bad_alloc on retrieval from vector
(I've never asked a question here before so please excuse me if I don't follow proper etiquette)
I'm working on a scene graph for use in a GLWidget, and I'm running into a weird case of bad_alloc. Each node (called a graphNode) in my scene graph…
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gdb "Junk at end of arguments." when trying "catch throw std::bad_aloc"
I've been trying to debug an instance of std::bad_alloc in gdb.
In gdb 7.4.1 and 7.5.91 I tried
(gdb) catch throw std::bad_alloc
Junk at end of arguments.
I've tried wrapping std::bad_alloc in single and double quotes, without success.
Is there a…
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std::map::begin() returns an iterator with garbage
typedef unsigned long Count;
typedef float Weight;
typedef std::map StringToCountMap;
typedef std::map StringToWeightMap;
typedef std::map UnsignedToStringToCountMap;
typedef…
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C++ bad_alloc caused by new?
[Fore note: I have read the existing threads in StackOverflow. None seemed to be on my question]
I am looking into the Quake 2 MD2 format. I seem to be getting a bad allocation after new'ing a pointer-array. However, if I do some horrible pointer…
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C++ Exception: bad_alloc at memory location
Unhandled exception at at 0x7650C41F in binary.exe: Microsoft C++ exception: std::bad_alloc at memory location 0x003EEE00.
First-chance exception at 0x77983AB3 (ntdll.dll) in binary.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location…
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C++ Populating deque bad allocation
I'm trying to make a huge collection of random numbers to do algorithm analysis. Then I came across this problem that I can't explain. Consider the following code:
#include
#include
#include
typedef unsigned long long…
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