Re: Customize operator new / delete
On May 8, 6:05 pm, "io_x" <a...@b.c.invalid> wrote:
"James Kanze" <james.ka...@gmail.com> ha scritto nel messaggionews:78a4d447-9756-4dbc-ac6d-3513dbcd5031@l6g2000vbn.googlegroups.com...
The operator new do not meet the requirements set down in the
standard, particularly the post-condition that the returned
pointer is never null. You have to do something like:
void operator new( size_t size )
{
void* result = malloc( size );
if ( result == NULL ) {
throw std::bad_alloc();
for me better what does malloc(); it return 0, so each function know
the path they have to follow: the error path; each function for its
responsability.
I'd argue about that (although most of the applications I've
worked on have set the new handler to abort). Still, if you're
providing replacement for the standard operator new, you don't
have a choice. One of the post-conditions that must be met is
that you return a valid non-null pointer. And a lot of code
(e.g. in the standard library) counts on it, and will fail
otherwise.
--
James Kanze
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