[lelanthran]

> how exactly do you think C and C++ differ here?

`new` throws, `malloc` returns. That's a pretty big difference!

Idiomatic C++ code never puts a `try` around `new`, while idiomatic C code always checks the return from an allocation.

[zabzonk]

Well: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/memory/new/nothrow.html

I thought you were talking about the use of malloc in both languages - you never mentioned new in your first post. and i think we have different views on what is "idiomatic" in the languages.

[lelanthran]

> I thought you were talking about the use of malloc in both languages - you never mentioned new in your first post. and i think we have different views on what is "idiomatic" in the languages.

That's fair, but malloc is certainly non-idiomatic, isn't it?