question regarding operator overloading!

[namaskaaram]

can the operators 'new' and 'delete' be overloaded? "faith, hope, love remain, these three.....; but the greatest of these is love" -1 Corinthians 13:13

[Johnny]

Yes they can[^]!

[Rahim Rattani]

Yes, new and delete operators can be overloaded. Use the following signatures. 1.) new :- void* operator new( size_t p_stBlock ); 2.) delete :- void operator delete( void* p ); Rahim Rattani Software Engineer, Matrix Systems (Pvt) Ltd., Karachi - Pakistan

[S Senthil Kumar]

It's slightly complicated in that you can overload operator new and operator delete but you can't overload the new and delete operators in the same sense as overloading, say '+'. The reason is that your overloaded operator `new is only responsible for allocating memory, but someone must call the constructor, right? Same goes for delete, you can free memory, but someone must call the destructor. Regards Senthil _____________________________ [My Blog](http://blogs.wdevs.com/senthilkumar) | [My Articles](http://www.codeproject.com/script/articles/list_articles.asp?userid=492196) | [WinMacro](http://geocities.com/win_macro)`

[namaskaaram]

Thank u senthil kumar! for ur answer!but i kinda didnt follow that last line you quoted! how is it different from the other operator overloaded types? cheerz..... "faith, hope, love remain, these three.....; but the greatest of these is love" -1 Corinthians 13:13