Re: [RFC] Fixes to bootstrap from a C++ compiler (part 1)

["Gabriel Dos Reis" <gdr at acm dot org>]

You Wrote Mark Mitchell
>> In C++, you have new and delete, which have "magic" behavior in this
>> area.  When you use other memory allocators, the collection of
>> otherwise unnecessary casts gets a bit old.
>
> I suppose we could introduce a macro along the lines of:
>
> #define ALLOC(bytes, type) \
>    ((type *) xmalloc (bytes))

Precisely.  I would propose the the slight variation:

   #define ALLOC(numelt, type) \
     ((type *) xmalloc (numelt * sizeof (type)))

where NUMELT is the the number of elements of type we want
to place in the storage returned by the allocation function.