From -8709331753667674633 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,2847ea2daacb5072,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-16 15:46:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsrout1.ntli.net!news.ntli.net!kibo.news.demon.net!mutlu.news.demon.net!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!devnull From: ivr@guesswh.at.emails.ru ("Ioannis Vranos") Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Proposal: free() and delete/delete[] compatibility Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 22:46:03 +0000 (UTC) Organization: National Technical University of Athens, Greece Lines: 21 Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++) Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 1082155563 3989 10.0.0.1 (16 Apr 2004 22:46:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 22:46:03 +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 1BEc5y-00012C-00 for mail2news@news.news.demon.net; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 22:46:02 +0000 X-Received: from mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU with ESMTP id i3GMk0i2027547; Sat, 17 Apr 2004 08:46:00 +1000 (EST) X-Received: (from fjh@localhost) by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.9/Submit) id i3GMk0eb027538; Sat, 17 Apr 2004 08:46:00 +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-Delivered-To: std-c++@ucar.edu X-Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ X-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 21:46:40 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 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=0.7 required=5.2 tests=PRIORITY_NO_NAME autolearn=no version=2.60-mulga_r1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.std.c++:1715 Proposal: A guarantee in the standard that if you call free() upon objects created by new/new[] ,and a call of delete/delete[] on objects created by malloc()/calloc()/realloc() is safe. I am not talking about the constructors issue where they are not called in the case of malloc() family, just the interchange ability between free() and the delete family. Ioannis Vranos --- [ 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 ]