RE: [GD-Windows] new/delete across DLL's

[Brian H. <bri...@py...>]

>Repeat after me: Factories. Interfaces. Bliss. :-)

Just to be clear, you're saying this is bad:

foo *f =3D Foo::newFoo();
delete f;

but that this is good:

foo *f =3D Foo::newFoo();
Foo::deleteFoo(f);

?

>Un-balanced allocations/deletions really are a bad idea for a
>variety of reasons; this being just one.

Well, a big part of me pretty much blames the language, but=
 that's a 
bit too convenient given that Microsoft's DLL idiosyncracies seem=
 to 
be rather unique in the world of operating systems (although you=
 do 
point out some interesting cases on Unix).

This is one reason why overloading global operator new seems like=
 a 
pipe dream in everything but the most specific cases (e.g. I can=
 get 
away with it because I don't use DLLs for anything on Windows --=
 but 
I can't get away with it at all using GCC for various reasons I=
 never 
bothered to figure out).

Brian