From 201686757712068134 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,2847ea2daacb5072 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-16 20:12:07 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!newsfeed.mathworks.com!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: Re: Proposal: free() and delete/delete[] compatibility Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 03:12:04 +0000 (UTC) Organization: National Technical University of Athens, Greece Lines: 32 Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 1082171525 7146 10.0.0.1 (17 Apr 2004 03:12:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 03:12:05 +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 1BEgFP-0001r7-00 for mail2news@news.news.demon.net; Sat, 17 Apr 2004 03:12:04 +0000 X-Received: from mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU with ESMTP id i3H3Bxi2007962; Sat, 17 Apr 2004 13:11:59 +1000 (EST) X-Received: (from fjh@localhost) by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.9/Submit) id i3H3BvWZ007950; Sat, 17 Apr 2004 13:11:57 +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: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 00:50:54 +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=AWL,PRIORITY_NO_NAME autolearn=no version=2.60-mulga_r1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.std.c++:1718 ""Ioannis Vranos"" wrote in message news:c5pk7v$so3$1@ulysses.noc.ntua.gr... > 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. The proposal corrected: Proposal: A guarantee in the standard that if you call delete/delete[] on objects created by malloc()/calloc()/realloc() is safe. 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 ]