Chapter 17 // Exercise 6 - Principles & Practice Using C++

In this exercise I am using Visual Studio 2017 and the std_lib_facilities header provided by Stroustrup.

Chapter 17 // Exercise 6

This chapter does not say what happens when you run out of memory using new. That's called 'memory exhaustion'. Find out what happens. You have two obvious alternatives: look for documentation, or write a program with an infinite loop that allocates but never deallocates. Try both. Approximately how much memory did you manage to allocate before failing.

Fortunately, Windows happens to be a good operating system and good OS's stop your program from eating up all the ram. It got to 2GB (which is my pagefile allowance) before it crashed on a bad memory allocation.