On: Current hardware trends make C++ exceptions harder...

[roger10-4]

You can’t return null from a constructor (constructors have no return)

[worik → roger10-4]

What dumb design.

I thought the constructor returned a pointer to the memory created.

No return? Stupid!

[gpderetta → worik]

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 → gpderetta]

Right.

Been a long time.

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