bad memory allocation while doing opencv2 bruteforce matcher - c++

Question

I was trying out the codes from the book openCV2 computer vision applications programming cookbook under surf chapter 8 page 226 out of 304 for the brute force matcher but while executing the code I keep getting this message:
Unhandled exception at 0x7530812f in surf matrix.exe: Microsoft C++ exception: std::bad_alloc at memory location 0x002af6b4.."
I tried Googling but could not find an answer to it and I have checked the book's example and still could not find what went wrong. The break point occurs at this statement: matcher.match(descriptors1,descriptors2, matches);
I am using opencv 2.3. I've included
C:\OpenCV2.3\build\include\opencv
C:\OpenCV2.3\build\include\opencv2
C:\OpenCV2.3\build\include
under additional include directories and the libraries:
opencv_core230.lib
opencv_highgui230.lib
opencv_imgproc230.lib
opencv_features2d230.lib
opencv_calib3d230.lib
...and added C:\OpenCV2.3\build\x86\vc9\lib to the additional library directories field
Below is my code:
#include "cv.h"
#include "highgui.h"
int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
std::vector<cv::KeyPoint> keypoints1, keypoints2;
cv::Mat image1=cv::imread("C:/Users/folder/44.jpg");
cv::Mat image2=cv::imread("C:/Users/folder/44.jpg");
cv::Mat featureImage=cv::imread("C:/Users/folder/44.jpg");
cvNamedWindow("MyJPG", CV_WINDOW_AUTOSIZE);
cv::imshow("MyJPG", image1);
cv::SurfFeatureDetector surf(2500);
surf.detect(image1, keypoints1);
// Draw the keypoints with scale and orientation information
cv::drawKeypoints(image1, // original image
keypoints1, // vector of keypoints
featureImage, // the resulting image
cv::Scalar(255, 255, 255), // color of the points
cv::DrawMatchesFlags::DRAW_OVER_OUTIMG); //flag
cv::imshow("Results", featureImage);
cv::imshow("MyJPG2", image2);
surf.detect(image2, keypoints2);
cv::drawKeypoints(image2, // original image keypoints2, // vector of
keypoints image2, // the resulting image
cv::Scalar(255,255,255), // color of the points
cv::DrawMatchesFlags::DRAW_OVER_OUTIMG); //flag
// Construction of the SURF descriptor extractor
cv::SurfDescriptorExtractor surfDesc1;
cv::SurfDescriptorExtractor surfDesc2; // Extraction of the SURF descriptors
cv::Mat descriptors1, descriptors2;
surfDesc1.compute(image1, keypoints1, descriptors1);
//printf("%s",surfDesc);
surfDesc2.compute(image2, keypoints2, descriptors2);
cvWaitKey(0); // Construction of the matcher
cv::BruteForceMatcher<cv::L2<float>> matcher; // Match the two image descriptors
std::vector<cv::DMatch> matches;
matcher.match(descriptors1, descriptors2, matches);
//cvReleaseImage( &image1 );
cvDestroyWindow("MyJPG");
return 0;
}