From: "Andrew Reid" <ac_reid AT hotmail DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: problem with new[] using djgpp egcs
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 12:18:37 +1200
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Mark E <snowball3 AT usa DOT net> wrote:

> The problem is that you can't initialize an array allocated by new[] like
> you can a single object allocated by plain new. In the case of new[], the
> default constructor is called for each element. The other compilers
> shouldn't have accepted this code, but also the error message given by the
> compiler was less than clear.

This is my point!  My understanding is...
With plain old new, you have a choice of constructors to call
T* = new T            - call the default constructor
T* = new T( const T& )     - call the copy constructor

and if we were using djgpp(2.02) gcc 2.8.1 we could do the same with new[]
T* = new T[n]        - call the default constructor for each member of the
array
T* = new T[n]( const T& )     - call the copy constructor for each member of
the array (***)

however with djgpp egcs 1.1.2 the line marked (***) causes an error iff T is
a built in type.
Why the discrepancy - does one of the djgpp compilers have a bug?  (Note
relevance to djgpp Nate :-)