[Bug c++/15795] No way to teach operator new anything about alignment requirements

[jason at redhat dot com]

------- Additional Comments From jason at redhat dot com  2004-06-08 20:06 -------
Subject: Re:  No way to teach operator new anything about
 alignment requirements

On 8 Jun 2004 19:27:26 -0000, "ma1flfs at bath dot ac dot uk" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 June 2004 19:04, jason at redhat dot com wrote:

>> Because you also need to override operator new for Foo, and any other type
>> which requires alignment greater than that provided by malloc.
>
> That's my point. Doing this would suck very much... And is sometimes not 
> possible. Think template classes, STL or Qt are good examples.

Feel free to propose an alternative solution.

Jason


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