Re: overloading operator delete[](void*, size_t) - possibly incorrect implementation of the language specification in Visual C++?

From:
Neil Butterworth <nbutterworth1953@googlemail.com>
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Date:
Thu, 16 Dec 2010 05:19:23 CST
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On Dec 14, 7:54 pm, Dobi <ha...@daiw.de> wrote:

should s be equal in the call of new[] and in the call of delete[] in
the following example, as it is with g++?
With MSVC++2010 (and 2005) it is not.

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
class C {
public:
        int j;

        void* operator new[]( size_t s ) {
                cout << "new[]: size_t=" << s << endl;
                return ::operator new[]( s );
        }
        void operator delete[]( void* ptr, size_t s ) {
                cout << "delete[]: size_t=" << s << endl;
        }};

int main() {
        C* x = new C[100];
        delete[] x;
        return 0;

}

Is this an incorrect implementation of the language specification in
Visual C++ or am I overlooking something?


The standard says, in 12.5/5:

"When a delete-expression is executed, the selected deallocation
function shall be called with the address of the block of storage to
be reclaimed as its first argument and (if the two-parameter style is
used) the size of the block as its second argument."

There is nothing that says that the block has exactly the size you
asked for in the call to new.

Neil Butterworth

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