From -7787541166876703806 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,a10702d4a7db0a94 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.alt.net!comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail From: "Lucas Galfaso" Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Why no size_t to ::operator delete? Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 08:59:28 CST Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 24 Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: <1167748819.184487.135760@v33g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> References: <1167062648.523657.53620@a3g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1167748824 5856 127.0.0.1 (2 Jan 2007 14:40:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 14:40:24 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.csse.unimelb.edu.au: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-Original-To: std-c++@mailman.ucar.edu Delivered-To: std-c++@mailman.ucar.edu User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v33g2000cwv.googlegroups.com; posting-host=200.123.147.90; posting-account=EiBFIA0AAABUIo4gheGArqTD1NeHjn3L X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ucar.edu X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at csse.unimelb.edu.au X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at csse.unimelb.edu.au Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.std.c++:5216 Dave Harris wrote: > lgalfaso@gmail.com (Lucas Galfaso) wrote (abridged): > > Having that definition for an extra parameter for the global operator > > delete would be really a bad idea; The key is when you delete a void*. > > Say you have a pointer to a fundamental type, you cast it to void*, and > > you delete the casted pointer; What would you expect to happen? > > That's already undefined behaviour, so anything can happen. The type > used in the delete expression must match the type in the new expression. > Can you please point me to the specific section where it is stated that this is undefined behavior. I am talking about a fundamental type, like int, not a class, not even a POD. Regards, Lucas Galfaso --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.comeaucomputing.com/csc/faq.html ]