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

I've actually had this problem before and it was fixed by cleaning and rebuilding the project. Always worth a try when you have weird behaviour (unless it is a huge project that takes hours to compile).