From -7703100256691410250 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,1ac63fff730e7d59 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: Valentin Bonnard Subject: Re: C++ Memory Allocation Bashing Date: 1999/08/13 Message-ID: <37B4548F.20AC@wanadoo.fr>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 512332163 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Approved: Valentin Bonnard References: <37b445e8.82613572@news.airmail.net> <37B42996.4580B88E@lucent.com> X-Original-Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 19:23:27 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Ecole normale superieure X-Auth: PGPMoose V1.1 PGP comp.std.c++ iQBVAwUAN7RVCawEuYhIxRhxAQG09AIAkVQbKgYKWAs+sFFfgnDgFhk5cgQG2MGz hSQ4niVO1N8sSPQoCz5PA6CBoHtAOgw3SLqWa0wBXj/UtB97KsvW9A== =ej6w Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Salters wrote: > > William H. Bloodworth wrote: > > Would anyone (Bjarne preferably) care to comment the information presented on C++ memory > > allocation at this location: http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~dm/c++-new.html ? > The author isn't familiar enough with C++ to pass judgement: Congratulation ! You have apparently been able to read this text up to the end. (I haven't.) > "Except for automatic variables, operator new is the only way > to call an object's constructor in C++. " > > Wrong. The trivial omission is that he missed globals, and temporaries created explicitly (ex T (1, "a")), ctor-init-member-list... > #define NEW new (dmalloc, __FILE__, __LINE__) > #define new NEW A lengthy way to write: #define new new (dmalloc, __FILE__, __LINE__) which shows that he doesn't even understand the preprocessor. > No contest. I strongly advise that Bjarne do _not_ loose time on this rant, except perhaps for fun. When reading such ``why C++ is bad'' descriptions, I often^Walways discover that the author doesn't have any clue about C++, how to use it, that it has evolved since the ARM. It's funny, because there are possible critics against C++ but I never see them anywhere. -- Valentin Bonnard --- [ 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://reality.sgi.com/austern_mti/std-c++/faq.html ]