why are we catching std::bad_alloc ?

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 01/04/2013 08:53 AM, Noel Grandin wrote:
> Why are we catching std::bad_alloc all over the place?
>
>      git grep 'catch.*bad_alloc' | wc -l
>      68
>
> Surely we should just let it crash?
> Or have a single handler for the whole process that at least attempts to
> provide some debugging data?
> At the moment, most of them just log something and then continues, which
> strikes me as counter-productive.

Some of the catch blocks might be (somewhat hopeless) attempts at making 
functions (typically those implementing UNO interface methods) adhere to 
their dynamic exception specifications.

Stephan