memory manager to prevent memory leaks

From:
hbdevelop1@gmail.com
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:49:25 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<db61afcf-75c0-4f17-b7e1-a982425f96f8@googlegroups.com>
Hello,

I have written a memory tracker to prevent memory leaks in my programs.
The memory tracker meets the following requirements:
r1-Allocate memory using the system's new/new[].
r2-Deallocate memory using the system's delete/delete[].
r3-Log the file name and line where an allocation happens.
r4-When a memory is fred, remove the memory allocation from the log.
r5-At application exit, display the log.

Please find the code at the end of the email.
I have the following questions :

1-
g++ issues the following warning in my operator delete/delete[]: memtrac=
ker4.cpp:24:9: warning: deleting =91void*' is undefined [enabled by defau=
lt]
      delete p;
              ^
Do you have any idea how to correct the code so I don't get the warning ?

2-
To remove tracks of memory added in my operator new/new[], I am using templ=
ate functions deleteArray and deleteObj.
But I remember in one company I worked in, they were using new(__FILE__,__L=
INE__) or new[](__FILE__,__LINE__) for allocations and plain delete/delete=
[] for deallocation.
And I wonder now, how they were removing memory tracks added by their opera=
tor new/new[] since they were using plain delete or delete[] for deallocati=
on.
Could anybody please tell me if this is possible ? or were they not removin=
g tracks ?

3-
Please tell me anything else to improve this code.

/////// code ////////

#include <stdio.h>
#include <new>

void AddToLog(long ptr, size_t size,const char * filename, int line)
{
    printf("allocation : 0x%08X,%d,%s,%d\n",ptr, size,filename, line);
}

void RemoveFromLog(long ptr)
{
    printf("deallocation : 0x%08X\n",ptr);
}

void * operator new(size_t size, const char *filename, int line)
{
    void *ptr = ::operator new(size);
    AddToLog((long)ptr, size, filename, line);
    return(ptr);
};

void * operator new[](size_t size, const char *filename, int line)
{
    void *ptr = ::operator new[](size);
    AddToLog((long)ptr, size, filename, line);
    return(ptr);
};

void operator delete(void *p, const char *filename, int line)
{
    RemoveFromLog((long)p);
    delete p; //g++ outputs warning: deleting =91void*' is undefined [enable=
d by default]
};

void operator delete[](void *p, const char *filename, int line)
{
    RemoveFromLog((long)p);
    delete [] p; //g++ outputs warning: deleting =91void*' is undefined [ena=
bled by default]
};

template<class T> void deleteObj(T *p)
{
    RemoveFromLog((long)p);
    delete p;
};

template<class T> void deleteArray(T *p)
{
    RemoveFromLog((long)p - sizeof(unsigned int));
    delete [] p;
};

struct O11
{
int x;
public:
    ~O11 (){}
};

#define new new(__FILE__,__LINE__)

int main()
{
    char *c=new char;
    deleteObj<char>(c);

    O11 *o=new O11;
    deleteObj<O11>(o);

    O11 *o1=new O11[10];
    deleteArray<O11>(o1);

    char *c3=new char[3];
    deleteObj<char>(c3);
        /*Note that I am treating c3 as a simple object not as array
        (which caused my question at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21178252/=
c-book-detailing-delete-and-delete)
        */

    return 0;
}

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