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Re: operator new/delete forwarding
Martin Sebor <sebor@roguewave.com> writes:
[...]
| > Thus the client can not count on it existing or not existing,
| > despite the fact that it is very visible. So as implementors, our
| > job becomes to decide which technique is most valuable to the
| > customer and go with that. If at some future date all vendors come
| > to the same conclusion, the committee might standardize existing
| > practice (if prodded into it).
|
| My preferred course of action would be to reopen your issue and
| get a confirmation/consensus on what the intent is before changing
| gcc. None of the compilers I tried (gcc, HP aCC, IBM XLC++, and Sun
| C++) implements your proposed behavior, as reasonable as it sounds,
| so changing gcc would introduce an incompatibility not only with
| older versions of itself but also with most other compilers as
| well.
OK, you guys have changed my mind and convinced me we should proceed
as Martin suggests.
We'll meet at Portalnd and rubber-stamp Howard's suggestion if LWG
feels OK :-)
Howard, you know the Master of LWG issue list, right? :-)
-- Gaby