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Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: overloading new & delete operator
Message-ID: <94@gec-rl-hrc.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 16-Feb-87 09:20:25 EST
Article-I.D.: gec-rl-h.94
Posted: Mon Feb 16 09:20:25 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Feb-87 06:24:38 EST
Organization: GEC Hirst Research Centre, Wembley. U.K.
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Keywords: new, delete, overload

According to the book reference manual section 8.5.11 (page  282) both
new & delete can be overloaded. However having done this, I discover that
c++ (or cfront) fails to use the new operators. I can see that this is
reasonable for new which is really a "zero-ary" operator :-), but delete
is a perfectly normal unary operator.

Now having investigated this, I also realise I should use the contructor
destructor mechanism for defining my own freestore mechanism. So is the
inability to overload new & delete a feature or a bug?


Peter Polkinghorne	pjmp@uk.co.gec-rl-hrc or ...!mcvax!ukc!gec-rl-hrc!pjmp
GEC Research
Wembley
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