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From: wlp@calmasd.Prime.COM (Walter Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Distinguishing stack and heap objects
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Date: 4 Jan 91 23:29:56 GMT
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In article <1598@inews.intel.com> psaripe@cadev5.UUCP (Phani Saripella ~) writes:
>Only one catch here. operator new *CANNOT* be overloaded ( nor can delete
>for that matter)


You are woefully behind the times! It was true that prior to Release
2.0 operators new and delete could not be overloaded, but ever since
then new and delete have been overloadable.  That change occured
quite a long time ago.

I attribute a good bit of this confusion to the plethora of poorly
written, poorly researched and out of date C++ books that are
currently on the market.

Just because someone found a publisher does not mean that they know
what they are talking about. Nor does the fact that a book is offered
for sale mean that either the bookseller or publisher care if it is
obsolete. Until the ANSI standard is promulgated the most
authoritative source is:

	Ellis, Margaret A. & Bjarne Stroustrup, "The Annotated C++
        Reference Manual", Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1990
	ISBN 0-201-51459-1

This is the Base Document for the ANSI committee.



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