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Re: [RFC] Fixes to bootstrap from a C++ compiler (part 1)
On Jun 25, 2004, "Gabriel Dos Reis" <gdr@acm.org> wrote:
> 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.
Having a single ALLOC macro, instead of ALLOC_1 and ALLOC_N that Mark
proposed, isn't as C++-friendly, since new and new[] are different
operators, and you can't hand the return value of the latter to
delete, only to delete[]. So, if we're planning on eventually
switching to C++, we'd better differentiate between allocating objects
and allocating arrays.
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