A few places in the library seem to behave unexpectedly when the library
is compiled or used with exceptions disabled. For example, not throwing
an exception when a pointer is NULL can lead us to dereference the pointer
later on, which is UB. This patch fixes such occurences.
It's hard to tell whether there are other places where the no-exceptions
mode misbehaves like this, because the replacement for throwing an
exception does not always seem to be abort()ing, but at least this
patch will improve the situation somewhat.
See http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/libcxx-dev/2019-January/000172.html