[PATCH] Add configure flag for operator new (std::nothrow)

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 06/11/15 09:59 +0000, Pedro Alves wrote:
>On 11/06/2015 01:56 AM, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>> On 5 November 2015 at 23:31, Daniel Gutson
>
>>> The issue is, as I understand it, to do the actual work of operator
>>> new, i.e. allocate memory. It should force
>>> us to copy most of the code of the original code of operator new,
>>> which may change on new versions of the
>>> STL, forcing us to keep updated.
>>
>> It can just call malloc, and the replacement operator delete can call free.
>>
>> That is very unlikely to need to change (which is corroborated by the
>> fact that the default definitions in libsupc++ change very rarely).
>
>Or perhaps libsupc++ could provide the default operator new under
>a __default_operator_new alias or some such, so that the user-defined
>replacement can fallback to calling it.  Likewise for op delete.

That could be useful, please file an enhancement request in bugzilla
if you'd like that done.