How do I call the original "operator new" if I have overloaded it?
You can't access them because it isn't really overloading, it's replacement. When you define your own ::operator new
, the old one goes away. That's pretty much that.
Essentially, you need to call malloc
from a custom ::operator new
. Not only that, but also follow the directions in 18.4.1.1/4 to properly handle errors:
Default behavior:
— Executes a loop: Within the loop, the function first attempts to allocate the requested storage. Whether the attempt involves a call to the Standard C library function malloc is unspecified.
— Returns a pointer to the allocated storage if the attempt is successful. Otherwise, if the last argument to set_new_handler() was a null pointer, throw bad_alloc.
— Otherwise, the function calls the current new_handler (18.4.2.2). If the called function returns, the loop repeats.
— The loop terminates when an attempt to allocate the requested storage is successful or when a called new_handler function does not return.