Re: overriding global operator new/delete
"Tom Widmer [VC++ MVP]" <tom_usenet@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Alexander wrote:
Hi!
I have implemented a memory manager and I would like to override the
global operators new and delete. My application is a bunch of dll's where
some are loaded at run-time and some are linked to during compile time.
My memory manager organized in a dll. Naturally, compilation process
generates memsub.dll and memsub.lib which I link to the application
before msvcrt by placing the memsub.lib before any of standard libraries
in the linker command line. However, there is no call to memsub's
new/delete operators. Then I tried to export the operators new/delete
from memsub.dll by using __declspec(dllexport) and I received following
compiler errors:
[snip]
I work with VC 6.
Could you please explain to me this a behavior or maybe you could
tell me what I'm doing wrong for global operator new/delete replacement.
Each module gets its own operator new and delete. operator new has a fixed
signature (it is declared in <new>), so you can't change that signature by
declaring it __declspec(dllim/export).
So I think you'll have to override new and delete separately for each
module (exe and dll) in your application that you want to use the memory
It should be possible to accomplish this with a static library. Can the OP
possibly somehow combine these functions with the import library to create a
single static library, or are object code libraries and import libraries
necessarily distinct?
manager. Have the DLL export some other functions (e.g. myspecialalloc and
myspecialfree), that the various operators new and delete can then
directly call.
Tom
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