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Re: using C++ STL containers in GCC/gfortran source code
On 17 December 2016 at 12:28, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 12/17/2016 12:23 PM, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>> Instead of replacing the global new operator we could write a custom
>> allocator that uses xmalloc, and we can have e.g. gcc::string as a
>> typedef for std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>,
>> gcc::xmallocator<char>>
>>
>
> That doesn't make sense to me, as it leaves the problem
> with all "new" expressions that call global op new in
> the codebase, like I mentioned? (And you'd have to do that
> for all containers that you'd want to use.)
>
> Am I missing something?
Nope, it doesn't help that. I don't know if people use new in the GCC
code base, or if we want them to be able to.