Re: Global Operators New/Delete and Visibility Across Translation
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dilabox@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I have overloaded the global new, delete, new[] and delete[] operators
inside a "static library". The library uses private memory allocation
routines that must not be accessible from other translation units.
Other translation units are therefore expected to define and use their
own new/delete operators.
When I link to this library the global new/delete operators conflict,
and although no linker warnings are generated, the result is that
translation units access each others memory allocation routines.
How can I limit the scope of these operator definitions?
You need to put the code in a separate module (EXE or DLL). IOW, make
your .lib a DLL, and the problem should go away.
Apparently it
is not enought to declare them as 'inline' functions, which should only
make them available to translation units which explicitly include the
headers where they are defined.
Global operator new overloads apply to all translation units. In
Windows, this means all translation units in a single module, be it an
exe or dll.
To avoid this ambiguity I have considered overloading one set of
operators with redundent parameters, such as: void* operator new(
size_t, int )
That would do it. You should probably use a unique type for the
redundant parameter. e.g.
struct unique_t {} unique;
void* operator new(size_t, unique_t);
Tom
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