From -1434594328227011057 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,2847ea2daacb5072 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-21 22:12:32 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsrout1.ntli.net!news-in.ntli.net!kibo.news.demon.net!mutlu.news.demon.net!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!devnull From: ahp6@email.byu.edu ("Adam H. Peterson") Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Proposal: free() and delete/delete[] compatibility Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 05:12:31 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Brigham Young University Lines: 19 Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++) Message-ID: References: <56918018qlgi7pium562mel08eeoh9vjeb@4ax.com> <8b42afac.0404200952.1d7f10cf@posting.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 1082610751 28074 10.0.0.1 (22 Apr 2004 05:12:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 05:12:31 +0000 (UTC) X-Received: from mulga.cs.mu.oz.au ([128.250.1.22]) by news.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 1BGWVi-0007Ie-00 for mail2news@news.news.demon.net; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 05:12:30 +0000 X-Received: from mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU with ESMTP id i3M5CRi2013392; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:12:27 +1000 (EST) X-Received: (from fjh@localhost) by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.9/Submit) id i3M5CR22013382; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:12:27 +1000 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Path: comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-Resent-From: news@acs2.byu.edu X-Delivered-To: std-c++@ucar.edu X-Resent-Message-Id: <200404220035.i3M0ZmZM010871@mailbox3.ucsd.edu> X-Resent-date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 18:35:47 -0600 (MDT) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040208) X-Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ X-Spamscanner: mailbox3.ucsd.edu (v1.4 Mar 10 2004 15:18:19, 0.0/5.0 2.63) X-MailScanner: PASSED (v1.2.8 90746 i3M0ZmZM010871 mailbox3.ucsd.edu) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-mulga_r1 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.2 tests=AWL autolearn=no version=2.60-mulga_r1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.std.c++:1836 >>Use malloc & free. It works in both C & C++. > > > > If we do not know the implementation details of the library (e.g. > precompiled)? If it's a C library, it's not using new or new[]. In any event, the library's documentation ought to tell you that type of thing. Otherwise, how do you know when a function returns a pointer that it even needs to be deallocated? --- [ 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.jamesd.demon.co.uk/csc/faq.html ]