On 12/02/2023 17.54, Thiago Macieira via Std-Proposals wrote:
> On Sunday, 12 February 2023 08:41:21 PST Jens Maurer via Std-Proposals wrote:
>> That's already the specified behavior when you provide your own
>> definition of global "operator new" and global "operator delete":
>> You replace those functions program-wide.
>>
>> The implementation you use may behave differently when DLLs
>> are involved; please discuss this with your implementer.
>
> It does and that cannot be changed on Windows without a major overhaul of just
> how the "dynamic linking" part of "dynamic linking libraries" work. In other
> words, this is not just a (compile-time) linker problem, it's mostly a program
> loader and file format problem.
>
> Even macOS/Darwin adopted some of the characteristics that are problematic, so
> I don't know how well it works on those OS and, if it does work, just how.

That may or may not be a desirable state for such implementations to be in,
but I can't see how adding a feature to the standard that it already offers
would help the situation in any way.

In general, doing the same thing two different ways seems to require
extensive rationale.

Jens