From 6396442397409619426 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,2847ea2daacb5072 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-20 11:03:08 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: kuyper@wizard.net (James Kuyper) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Proposal: free() and delete/delete[] compatibility Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:03:07 +0000 (UTC) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 15 Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++) Message-ID: <8b42afac.0404200952.1d7f10cf@posting.google.com> References: <56918018qlgi7pium562mel08eeoh9vjeb@4ax.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 1082484187 3524 10.0.0.1 (20 Apr 2004 18:03:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:03:07 +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 1BFzaM-0000uh-00 for mail2news@news.news.demon.net; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:03:06 +0000 X-Received: from mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU with ESMTP id i3KI34i2029483; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 04:03:04 +1000 (EST) X-Received: (from fjh@localhost) by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.9/Submit) id i3KI34oL029474; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 04:03:04 +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: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 17:52:51 +0000 (UTC) X-Spamscanner: mailbox6.ucsd.edu (v1.4 Mar 10 2004 15:18:19, 0.0/5.0 2.63) X-MailScanner: PASSED (v1.2.8 42589 i3KHqpM4072057 mailbox6.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++:1788 ivr@guesswh.at.emails.ru ("Ioannis Vranos") wrote in message news:... .. > Yes you are right. It is just more language coherence. And if someone just > moved to C++ and wants to use his old libraries allocating things with > malloc()/calloc()/realloc() to be able to use delete in his new environment. Why would he want to change his free() calls to delete, without replacing his malloc()/calloc() calls to new-expressions? --- [ 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 ]