On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 01:49:23PM -0800, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > The existing GCC behaviour is a bit more perverse than the > C malloc() case as in > > new T[n] > > there is no multiplication that could be credited to careless programmer. > The multiplication is introduced by GCC.
... which suggests strongly that GCC should fix it. Too bad the ABI is frozen; if the internal ABI kept the two values (the size of the type, and the number of values) separate and passed two arguments to the allocation function, it would be easy to do the right thing (through bad_alloc if the multiplication overflows).
