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Re: [tree-ssa] dead const/pure/alloca call removal
Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com> writes:
| On 10 Nov 2003 05:02:49 +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net> wrote:
|
| > If you look at the way the C++ standard library works, you'll notice
| > that it handles storage allocation differently from other standard
| > algorithms like count_if or find. I suppose that is no enough
| > evidence for you to acknowledge the difference.
|
| C++ specifically allows op new and delete to be overridden. C makes no
| such allowance for malloc/free.
That is true. However that comment on memory management was to respond
to this specific statement
> memory allocation is fundamentally different from counting the number
> of characters in a string.
This is an interesting statement from a language lawyer.
-- Gaby