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>>>>> Ulf Schuenemann <schuenem@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> writes:

> To implement the delete[]-operator new[] must store information about
> size of the array somewhere (Is there a way to do without it?).

As I said in my previous article, this is not true for all arrays, only
arrays of objects that have either destructors or an operator delete []
which wants to know the size of the block of memory.

Jason