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Subject: Re: is 'ld --wrap' not for C++?
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On Wednesday, December 15, 1999 1:00:00 AM UTC-7, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Martin Ambuhl wrote:
> 
> > Alexey Zakhlestine wrote:
> > > 
> > > Well.... astually AFAIK "free" and "malloc" are C-routines.... not C++
> > > 
> > > In C++ you should use new/delete
> > 
> > It may be preferable in most cases to use new and delete in C++, that
> > first line has an extremely foul taste.
> 
> I don't think this is an issue in this case.  malloc should not be used 
> in C++ application code, but I'm guesing that new and delete call malloc 
> and free internally.  What the user who started this thread was trying to 
> do is to wrap malloc and free with user-defined wrappers, to be able to 
> watch memory allocation, presumably for debugging.  Thus, the reference 
> to malloc and free in this case is justified.

name mangling might be the issue