modifying heap available to a process

Hello,

I'm pretty new to Linux and I'm trying to figure out
how to modify the amount of heap available to a
process.  I have the following simple C++ program:

//START CODE
#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <new>
using namespace std;
int count = 0;
void out_of_memory( )
{
  cerr << "memory exhausted after " << count << "
allocations!" << endl;
  cerr << "or " << count * 10000 * sizeof(int) << "
bytes" << endl;
  exit(1);
}

int main( )
{
  set_new_handler(out_of_memory);
  while(1)
  {
    count++;
    new int[10000];
  }
}
//END CODE

When I run this program the output is:

memory exhausted after 76677 allocations!
or 3067080000 bytes

I would like to limit the heap available to the
process.  I think ulimit should be able to do what I
want but I've not had any luck yet.  (As an aside is
their any documentation available for the bash
builtins anywhere?)  If I issue 'ulimit -m 2' and then
'ulimit -a' it seems to indicate that max memory has
been set to 2k but when I run the program again I get
the same output.  So, can anyone tell me how to limit
the heap available to a process?  Thanks in advance
for any replies!

-exits

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