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Reputation: 2136

interpretation of keyword new in C++

On the site of cppreference, I see the following sentence:

This is a list of reserved keywords in C++. Since they are used by the language, these keywords are not available for re-definition or overloading.

Among the keywords, there is new. But I know that we can overload new in C++. So the above citation is wrong or there is something else there for the keyword new ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 114

Answers (1)

Pete Becker
Pete Becker

Reputation: 76523

You can't overload new. You can overload operator new, which is the function that new calls to allocate memory before it constructs the object(s).

Upvotes: 15

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