Debugging strategy to find the cause of bad_alloc

Question

I have a fairly serious bug in my program - occasional calls to new() throw a bad_alloc.

From the documentation I can find on bad_alloc, it seems to be thrown for these

Answer 1

bad_alloc can be thrown by other code as well.

I've seen it used by a limiting memory pool designed for use with STL containers. When the size limit was hit, it threw bad_alloc and the software just had to handle it.