[Moderator's note: this defect report has been
 forwarded to the C++ committee. -moderator.]

It is not clear which storage duration is associated with (POD) objects
created by calloc(), malloc(), and realloc().

3.7 [basic.stc] states that there are only three kinds of storage duration:
static, automatic and dynamic. However, ISO/IEC 9899:1990 with TC2 states
that the objects calloc(), malloc(), and realloc() return have "allocated"
storage duration. The C++98 standard neither changes their storage duration
explicitly nor allows them to keep their allocated storage duration, so
there is a logical contradiction.

Proposed resolution: (suggestive only)

  (a) specify that those objects have allocated storage duration, as in C,
     (3.7 [basic.stc] should be modified to reflect this addition.)
  (b) specify that those objects have dynamic storage duration,
     (is it desirable?)
  or whatever.

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Seungbeom Kim <musiphil@bawi.org>
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