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From: scs@itivax.UUCP (Steve C. Simmons)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Overloading operator new()
Summary: garbage collection, exception processing
Message-ID: <294@itivax.UUCP>
Date: 6 Oct 88 13:59:57 GMT
References: <5949@june.cs.washington.edu>
Reply-To: scs@itivax.UUCP (Steve C. Simmons)
Organization: Industrial Technology Institute, Ann Arbor
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In article <5949@june.cs.washington.edu> david@uw-june.UUCP (David Callahan) writes:
>Could someone show me an example of "new" being overloaded and how
>it would be used?

Someone else has already posted how to do it.  I have no examples,
but can think of a good reason to do it -- exception handling.  Since
new allocates memory, there must be a way of doing garbage collection
should that allocation become unneeded due to an exception.  By overloading
new, you can go a long way to providing your own garbage collection
software and make use of more c-style exception processing.  Not perfect,
but a good step.

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