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by _0w8t 1578 days ago
Note Google explicitly configure runtime to instantly crash on memory allocation errors. With that STL works indeed nicely without exceptions.
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I interviewed at Google once and during some whiteboard forgot to check malloc for NULL return, then mentioned, "oh yeah at <former company> malloc never returns NULL" and the interviewer commented "at Google, malloc spawns a new data center."