C++ New Delete Operator - Exercise

Traditional C programming uses malloc() to access free store and return a void* pointer to the allocated memory. Memory is deallocated by the stdlib.h function free().

Use operator overloading of new and delete to allow a testClass object to utilize C traditional free store management according to the given prototypes.

#include <stdlib.h>    //malloc() and free() defined

class testClass {
public:
   void* operator new(size_t size);
   void  operator delete(void* ptr); 
   testClass(unsigned size) { new(size); }
   ~testClass() { delete(this); }
   .....
};

When a class overloads operator new(), the global operator is still accessible using the scope resolution operator ::.
These class new() and delete() member functions are always implicitly static. The new() operator is invoked before the object exists and, therefore, cannot have a this pointer yet. The delete() operator is called by the destructor, so the object is already destroyed.
The code for the testClass class is available in a file named testclass.cpp, which can be found in the compressed course download file available on the Resources page.