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Re: malloc attributes and realloc
On Sunday 4 January 2004 04:12, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> gdr@integrable-solutions.net (Gabriel Dos Reis) wrote on 03.01.04 in
<m34qvdq5jp.fsf@uniton.integrable-solutions.net>:
> >
> > And I will point out that libstdc++ depends on that pointer
> > ordering behaving "correctly" in its implementation of
> > std::less<T*>.
>
> Does it?
>
> That is, is that specified to work for two independent objects (as
> opposed to two different parts of the same object)?
Yes; see section 20.3.3 para 8 of the C++ standard. C++ (unlike C) does
require a total ordering on all pointers (to a given type) to exist,
accessible through std::less although not necessarily through <.
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