From 4294173407066802672 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,2847ea2daacb5072 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-20 23:15:24 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: ivr@guesswh.at.emails.ru ("Ioannis Vranos") Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Proposal: free() and delete/delete[] compatibility Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 06:15:23 +0000 (UTC) Organization: National Technical University of Athens, Greece Lines: 47 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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 1082528123 11162 10.0.0.1 (21 Apr 2004 06:15:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 06:15:23 +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 1BGB10-0002tk-00 for mail2news@news.news.demon.net; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 06:15:22 +0000 X-Received: from mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU with ESMTP id i3L6FIi6016426; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 16:15:19 +1000 (EST) X-Received: (from fjh@localhost) by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.9/Submit) id i3L5Qpx0007197; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 15:26:51 +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 23:26:48 +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++:1803 "James Kuyper" wrote in message news:8b42afac.0404200952.1d7f10cf@posting.google.com... > > Why would he want to change his free() calls to delete, without > replacing his malloc()/calloc() calls to new-expressions? What about a library for use both in C & C++? For example: C code: #include char *p=something(); /* ... */ free(p); C++ code: #include string s=something(); delete p[]; // ... 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 ]