Accessing private operator delete

[mharrold at cas dot org (Mike Harrold)]

Hi,

This is a fairly simple one:

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#include <cstddef>

class A;

class Foo
{
private :

  A&  a;
  int x;

  void operator delete(void*, size_t);

public:

  Foo(A& h, int a) : a(h) { x = a; }

};


class A
{
private:

  Foo* x[4];

public:

  A() { x[0] = x[1] = x[2] = x[3] = 0; }

  Foo* add_foo(int, int);
};

Foo*
A::add_foo(int a, int b)
{ return (x[a] = new Foo(*this, b)); }
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bash-2.01$ g++ -O2 -Wall priv.cc -c
priv.cc: In method `class Foo * A::add_foo(int, int)':
priv.cc:12: `static void Foo::operator delete(void *, size_t)' is private
priv.cc:36: within this context
bash-2.01$ g++ -v
Reading specs from /home/mah21/usr/local/egcs-1.1a/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/egcs-2.91.57/specs
gcc version egcs-2.91.57 19980901 (egcs-1.1 release)

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The above error message does not appear in egcs-1.0.3a and unless I have
missed something entirely, should not appear anyway.

It is important that I make operator delete private to force use of other
(virtual) functions to destroy instances of the object. These member
functions call delete themselves.

Please advise if there is a work around for this, other than making the
delete function public.

Thanks,

/Mike