2010/8/21 Henrik Nordström <hen...@henriknordstrom.net>: > Why are we overloading new/delete with xmalloc/xfree? > > include/SquidNew.h > > this is causing "random" linking issues every time some piece of code > forgets to include SquidNew.h, especially when building helpers etc. And > I fail to see what benefit we get from overloading the new/delete > operators in this way.
it was to stop crashes with code that had been cast and was freed with xfree(); if you don't alloc with a matching allocator, and the platform has a different default new - *boom*. There may be nothing like that left to worry about now. -Rob
