------- Comment #6 from sabre at nondot dot org 2008-06-04 04:32 ------- This has been extensively discussed on the C++ reflector. They decided (informally, on the reflector) that people should be able to globally override operator new to do logging, etc, which can make malloc have arbitrary side effects.
-- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23383
