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From: "Al Slater" <al.slater@scluk.com>
To: "'Samuel'" <samuel@socal.rr.com>, <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: new vs malloc, was BUG - Cygwin to GNU CC compatibility
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 15:03:02 +0100
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[SNIP]
> 
> It sure surprises me that I was the only one that said 
> something about the
> innacuracy; if such a thing were to be said in the 
> comp.lang.c++ newsgroup
> then the remark would get more ridicule than I see people 
> getting in this
> list about anything. Again, if you simply leave off the 
> "multiple" (and Ross
> did not say "multiple") from what you said, your statement is highly
> inaccurate. Am I the only one in this list that knows this? 
> If so then it is
> good that I am correcting this error. This is not a "C++ API / data
> structure philosophy debate"; it is not a matter of 
> philosophy; it is a
> matter of fact. There have been more than one message 
> recently asking C++
> questions that were not relevant to CygWin. I have not seen 
> any messages
> saying that they were off-topic. So I do not appreciate being 
> told that I
> should not post a small correction to a huge inaccuracy. I 
> know that for
> sure the C++ experts in the comp.lang.c++ newsgroup often 
> emphasize that for
> every "new" there must be one (and only one) "delete" and for 
> every "new []"
> there must be one (and only one) "delete []", but that is 
> such a basic thing
> that I do not need experts to tell me that.
> 
> All C++ questions should be referred to a more appropriate 
> list, newsgroup
> or forum, since the advice they get in the CygWin list is dangerous.
[SNIP]

No one replied because it is OFF TOPIC for this list


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