Re: Beginning compile problems -- some progress

["David Schuetz" <dschuetz@access.digex.net>]

Okay, I have now learned [from the C++ FAQ, section 11.10] that the
following:
       ITEM * obj = new(ptr) ITEM;
is a "Placement New", where (in this case, substituting RegExPtr for ITEM),
we have something like "the variable 'obj' is a pointer to an 'new' object
of class 'RegExPtr,' and it is actually located at memory location 'ptr.' 
The other line of code:
       ITEM * obj = new(q) ITEM(*p);
means essentially the same thing, but instructs the newly-created RegExPtr
instance to execute some unknown (to me, that is) function during
construction with the value pointed to by p.

So now that I understand (somewhat) what's supposed to be happening, I now
have to figure out why I get the "too many arguments" error during compile:

     ../../util/RegExArray.c++:
     In method `void RegExArray::createElements(void *, unsigned int)':
        ../../util/RegExArray.c++:27:
        too many arguments for function `void * operator new(long unsigned
int)'

The call to new() only even has a single argument, so why am I getting this
error?

help!!!


david.

[thanks!]