Re: namespace std::

[Dhruv Matani <dhruvbird at gmx dot net>]

On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 20:09, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 08:06:39PM +0530, Dhruv Matani wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 	I wanted to know whether:
> > 1. By including cstdlib I should get access to malloc() and free().
> > 2. Should malloc() and free() be in namespace std::?
> 
> Yes and yes.
> 
> i.e. this should compile fine (and does with GCC)
> 
>     #include <cstdlib>
>     int main()
>     {
>         std::free(std::malloc(1));
>     }

Unfortunately, even this does, which shouldn't:

#include <cstdlib>
int main()
{
  free(malloc(1));
}



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