Re: macros question about new operator replacement

From:
Pete Becker <pete@versatilecoding.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sun, 24 May 2009 15:54:54 -0400
Message-ID:
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asm23 wrote:

Thanks James for your help. Actually, I'm reading these links, I'm
trying to detect memory leak by using ."A Cross-Platform Memory Leak
Detector".

http://wyw.dcweb.cn/leakage.htm

The author try to define his own debug_new routing, in which any memory
allocation and deleting can be recorded.

He just use these mechanism. It seems he just override of the *operator
new*.

For the replacement issue, it seem there are two steps, and macros can
be called recursively.

Say, "new" is replaced by "NEW", then "NEW" is replaced by "new
(dmalloc, __FILE__, __LINE__)".

then, whey the "new" in "new(dmalloc, __FILE__, __LINE__)" can't be
replaced?


Because that's how macros are defined. During the expansion of a macro,
text with the same name as the macro is not replaced.

--
   Pete
Roundhouse Consulting, Ltd. (www.versatilecoding.com) Author of
"The Standard C++ Library Extensions: a Tutorial and Reference"
(www.petebecker.com/tr1book)

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