Using new to allocate memory may fail sometimes because of unavailability of memory on the system. To handle the situation there are two methods:
- Exception handling
- no throw method

Exception Handling: new throws exception of type bad_alloc if memory cannot be allocated. So catch this exception. e.g.

try {
int* p = new int [1000000000000000];
} catch (bad_alloc b) {
// Error Messages
}

No throw method is another approach. Use (nothrow) in the call and then check for null-ness of the pointer. E.g.

int* p = new (nothrow) int [10000000000000000];
if ( 0 == p ) {
// Error message
} else {
// Normal execution