NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #26/NN_1992_26.iso/spool/comp/os/mswindo/programm/win32/1838

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From: [e-mail] (Steven Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Re: MSC++ problems with override delete
Date: 6 Nov 1992 16:18:31 GMT
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Steven Lewis) writes:
|>
|>   Microsoft C gives me errors when I try to override the delete
|> operator - the code fragment below accepts overriding new with no
|> difficulty but gives errors on foo::delete. Borland, Zortech,
|> Sun C++, gnu and Think C all think the syntax below is acceptable.
|>
|> #include <stdio.h>
|>
|> extern void *my_alloc(size_t Size);
|> extern void my_free(void *Data);
|>
|> class foo
|> {
|>     void* operator new(size_t objSize);
|>     void  operator delete( void* objStorage);
|> };
|>
|>
|> void *foo::operator new(size_t objSize)
|> {
|>     ObjectD *TheObject;
|>     TheObject = (ObjectD *)my_alloc(objSize);
|>     return(TheObject);
|> }
|>
|>
|> void foo::operator delete( void *objStorage)
|> {
|>     my_free(objStorage);
|> }
|>

Actually I tested the above code and it WORKS! It fails when I
name the class ObjectD rather than foo - this is name I use.
What is the conflict with ObjectD??