In article <slrn7trsa1.uk7.sbnaran@localhost.localdomain>,
  sbnaran@uiuc.edu wrote:

> To find space for 3 elements, the container calls the default
> allocator's allocate function.  In template form, it is
>
>    T * allocator<T>::allocate(size_type N) {
>       return static_cast<T *>(std::malloc(N*sizeof(T)));
>    }

Is this implementation legal.  In 20.4.1.1, it says (concerning
allocate): "Uses ::operator new(size_t)".  This would seem to forbid a
direct call to malloc.  On the other hand, this text is in a field
called Notes (but it is not marked as a note normally is): is it
normative?  And if not, why do the notes say something that the standard
doesn't guarantee?

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