On 9/7/07, Chris Lattner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.

I was looking for something else in the standard and found this (5.3.4/7):
[Note: If the library allocation function is called, the pointer
returned is distinct from the pointer to any other object. ]

Which means it has to act like malloc.

-- Pinski

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