Re: [boost] [boost.test] Non-conforming operator new, AFAICT

From: Gennadiy Rozental (gennadiy.rozental_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-12-22 10:45:50

> Hello,
>
> boost.test currently contains an assortment of new operators which IMO are
> not conforming to the C++ std.
>
> The implementation basically looks like this:
>
> p = std::malloc(n);
> if (!p) throw std::bad_alloc();
>
> This ignores the fact the std::malloc() is allowed to return either 0 or
> some unique pointer on zero sized requests, whereas a C++ allocation
> function _must_ return a unique pointer for each zero sized request.
>
> If I'm correct, this could be easily fixed by changing all occurences of 
> "p
> = std::malloc(n)" to "p = std::malloc(n ? n : 1)" or something similar.

Ok. Applied.

Gennadiy