TITLE: Operator new and delete for arrays

(From "The C++ Report", v5, n3, p. 10)

In the current implementation of the C++ language, the global operator
new is used for allocating arrays of objects, even when the class definition
for such objects has a definition for a class-specific new.

The ISO/ANSI committe has committed to a new language change that allows
users to overload both new and delete for scalar and array allocations:


void operator new (size_t sz)         // scalar allocation
{
    ...
}

void operator delete (void*)
{
    ...
}

void operator new[] (size_t sz)       // array allocation
{
    ...
}

void operator delete[] (void*)
{
    ...
}


Note that this has not yet been finalized.