From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Joern Rennecke <amylaar@cygnus.co.uk>
To: ncm@cygnus.com (Nathan Myers)
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: malloc/free & new/delete balance
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 14:48:00 -0000
Message-id: <199807062124.WAA12419@phal.cygnus.co.uk>
References: <35A01664.383F9BDB@cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 1998-07/msg00216.html

> *You* try to write a requirement that the storage is re-used without
> actually specifying an algorithm.  The C committee gave up, and the
> C++ committee doesn't claim to be (much :) smarter.

How about listing some minimum requirement, like:

if an object is freed, and the next allocation is for an object of the
same size, that allocation will succeed.