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clamage@Eng.sun.com (Steve Clamage) writes:

>The strstream functions must use the global operator
>new and operator delete. Appendix D of the draft standard makes this clear.

Ah yes, right you are.  My earlier post stating that the standard didn't
say anything about strstream was wrong.  (Silly me, I didn't think that
deprecated features would be in the Annex titled "Future Directions"!
I guess I'll know to look harder next time ;-)

One more point though: the example program overloaded only `operator new'
and `operator delete'; it did not overload the array forms `operator new []'
and `operator delete []'.  Although the draft standard says that the
default behaviour of `operator new [] (size_t size)' is just to call
`operator new(size)', it does *not* say that the default behaviour of
`operator delete[] (void *p)' is to call `operator delete (p)'.
Instead it just says that it "reclaims [the] storage", without
specifying how.  [See 18.4.2.1.]  From this I conclude that it is
unspecified whether or not the replacement `operator delete' function
in the example program would get called.

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