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From: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Why no renew
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Date: 11 Mar 91 21:40:51 GMT
References: <2488@bnlux0.bnl.gov> <10895@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1991Mar3.053504.14027@mathcs.sjsu.edu>
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In article <1991Mar3.053504.14027@mathcs.sjsu.edu> horstman@mathcs.sjsu.edu (Cay Horstmann) writes:
/SINCE I AM AT IT: It would be awful nice if operator new could zero out
/the memory when allocating arrays of integers or pointers (i.e. fill the
/array with the bit pattern corresponding to a logical zero.)

Ah, but you can do it! Simply overload the global operator new to use
calloc. It's even portable!