On Sep 7, 2007, at 1:53 PM, Martin Jambor wrote: > [ giving operator new the malloc property ]
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 06:30:33PM -0700, Chris Lattner wrote: > It is unclear whether this is safe. Nothing in the standard AFAIK > requires the operator new be implemented in terms of malloc, and > users are allowed to override it. The malloc property doesn't mean that operator new is defined in terms of malloc. It refers to the aliasing properties of the returned values; specifically, the compiler can assume that two separate calls return values that don't alias each other.
