Re: Big Problem! How to overload operator delete?

From:
Jeffrey Schwab <jeff@schwabcenter.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:28:40 GMT
Message-ID:
<sRwCg.33403$so3.4059@southeast.rr.com>
Lighter wrote:

Big Problem! How to overload operator delete?

According to C++ standard, "A deallocation function can have more than
one parameter."(see 3.7.3.2); however, I don't know how to use an
overloaded delete operator. Let me use an example to illustrate this:

/********************************************************/
#include <new>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

void operator delete(void* p, const nothrow_t&)
{
    cout << "Hello" << endl;
} // (1)

void operator delete(void* p, int a, int b)
{
    cout << "World" << endl;
} // (2)

int main()
{
    int* p = new(nothrow) int;

    delete p; // This cannot render to show 'Hello' or 'World'
}
/********************************************************/

Even if I use 'delete(nothrow, p);', it cannot render to show 'Hello'
or 'World' either. My problem just lies here: Although I can write my
own operator delete, I cannot use it. As far as I know, the C++
standard doesn't give an example to illustrate the usage of delete (The
usage of new is given.).

An ugly way to do this is to use function call:

operator delete(nothrow, p); // This can render to show 'Hello'

However, I don't think this is the answer to my question. Who know the
correct one?


I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish; code to be run when an
object is deleted usually goes in the object's destructor. If you
really want, you can write a "destroy" function to:

    - run your custom code
    - invoke the destructor of the object being destroyed
    - deallocate the object's memory

Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ has a concise example:
http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq2.html#placement-delete

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