Re: A proposal to cancel overriding the DEFAULT operator new/delete

xu****wei ha scritto:
> http://xu****wei.com/cancel-overriding-the-default-operator-new-delete
> 
> * Motivation
> 
> I don't think we need to override the DEFAULT operator new/delete.
> This makes your code doesn't work well together 3rdparty code (if it
> also overrides them).
> 
> Why overriding the DEFAULT operator new/delete is bad?

It *is* bad for libraries. It *is not* bad for applications. I have
worked on at least one project where we definitely needed to override
the global operator new and delete. It was on an embedded platform where
the default implementation was unsuitable and therefore allowing the
compiler to ignore the overrides, as you suggest, would make the
application stop working properly. That is even worse than "breaking the
code", because the programmer has no mean to get the original behaviour
without significantly rewriting the whole program.

I definitely hope that this suggestion won't be considered.

Ganesh

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