From 1060106458642704892 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,a10702d4a7db0a94 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed101.telia.com!nf02.dk.telia.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!lnewsinpeer00.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!mutlu.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!stump.algebra.com!devnull From: usenet@aristeia.com (Scott Meyers) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Why no size_t to ::operator delete? Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 16:42:12 GMT Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Lines: 19 Sender: mail2news@demon.net Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++) Message-ID: <12osad256lnh106@corp.supernews.com> References: <12omt8jit7rl379@corp.supernews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.news.demon.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1166978546 7535 158.152.254.254 (24 Dec 2006 16:42:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 16:42:26 +0000 (UTC) X-Original-To: std-c++@mailman.ucar.edu X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061207 Thunderbird/1.5.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at csse.unimelb.edu.au X-Path: comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail X-Received: (from fjh@localhost) by mulga.csse.unimelb.edu.au (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/Submit) id kBOGgCx7023056; Mon, 25 Dec 2006 03:42:12 +1100 (EST) X-Delivered-To: std-c++@mailman.ucar.edu X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.csse.unimelb.edu.au: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.std.c++:5152 Andrew Koenig wrote: > Because if it did, what would it mean? The same thing it means for a per-class deallocator: please deallocate the chunk of memory pointed to by this pointer; you can assume that the size indicated is correct for the chunk. (Actually, now that I look for it, I can't find anything in the standard (at least not in 3.7.3.2 or 5.3.5 or 12.5) that specifies the semantics of the size_t argument. I've always assumed it was the size of the chunk that should be deallocated if UB was to be avoided.) Scott --- [ 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 ]