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In article <pathak-291092115943@maclab1-e.mitre.org> pathak@mitre.org (Heeren Pathak) writes:
>
>I have a situation where I need to know how an object was created
>(dynamically or on the stack) and have delete only delete dynamic objects. 

	I wonder if the language could be extended to allow the storage
class of the thing pointed to by a pointer to be an attribute of the pointer.

	For example suppose we have:

	int heap* x;
	int global* y;
	int stack* z;

analogously to 'const' and 'volatile', then 

	delete y; // compile time error
	delete z; // compile time error

	int heap& f(){ ... return *z;} // compile time error

We could then make linked lists of pointers to heap objects.
Mm. Doesnt stop dangling pointers though.

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