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From: fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: Seg fault with cout and cerr streams on SGI
Date: 1997/04/09
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James Kanze <james-albert.kanze@vx.cit.alcatel.fr> writes:

>fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) writes:
>
>|>  Summary: the status quo in the DWP is fine.
>
>Yes and no.

Agreed.  The status quo is fine for the example at the start of this
thread, but not for all examples.  The status quo in the DWP is not very
satisfactory for the operator new calls memset() example.

>... there are significant grey areas as
>to what functions really are safe in operator new, from a practical
>point of view.

Yes, agreed.

>I can live with the status quo.

Sure, just don't redefine the global operator new!

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