diff -r 000000000000 -r e4d67989cc36 genericopenlibs/cppstdlib/stl/test/compiler/eh.cc
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/genericopenlibs/cppstdlib/stl/test/compiler/eh.cc	Tue Feb 02 02:01:42 2010 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+//#include <list>
+#include <stdexcept>
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+using namespace std;
+
+struct BigStruct
+{
+  char _data[4096];
+};
+
+void bad_alloc_test()
+{
+  typedef allocator<BigStruct> BigStructAllocType;
+  BigStructAllocType bigStructAlloc;
+
+  try {
+    //Lets try to allocate almost 4096 Go (on most of the platforms) of memory:
+    BigStructAllocType::pointer pbigStruct = bigStructAlloc.allocate(1024 * 1024 * 1024);
+
+    // CPPUNIT_ASSERT( pbigStruct != 0 && "Allocation failed but no exception thrown" );
+  }
+  catch (bad_alloc const&) {
+    printf( "Ok\n" );
+  }
+  catch (...) {
+    //We shouldn't be there:
+    // CPPUNIT_ASSERT( false && "Not bad_alloc exception thrown." );
+  }
+}
+
+void bad_alloc_test1()
+{
+  try {
+    allocator<BigStruct> all;
+    BigStruct *bs = all.allocate(1024*1024*1024);
+
+    // throw bad_alloc();
+  }
+  catch ( bad_alloc const & ) {
+    printf( "I am here\n" );
+  }
+  catch ( ... ) {
+  }
+}
+
+int main()
+{
+  bad_alloc_test();
+#if 0
+  try {
+    throw bad_alloc();
+  }
+  catch ( bad_alloc& ) {
+  }
+  catch ( ... ) {
+  }
+#endif
+  return 0;
+}