[comp.lang.c++] Definition of "new"

rlb@polari.UUCP (rlb) (05/31/88)

In the July, 1987 "The C++ Programming Language":

The free store allocator is defined to be implemented by the function:
    void* operator new(long);
Is there a good reason it was not defined as:
    void* operator new(long size, int align);
so that, given the alignment information that the compiler has at its
fingertips, a more intelligent free store allocator could be implemented?
-Ron Burk