Use of malloc() in v3

[Paolo Carlini]

Stephen M. Webb wrote:

>I've been stumbling across several places in libstdc++ where malloc() is used 
>instead of ::operator new().  Since I'm working on a platform that doesn't 
>supply malloc(), this inconveniences me.
>
I see. I'm not going into the technical details (first blush I agree that
replacing malloc with new is a good idea), only want to point out that 
basically
we have malloc only in a couple of places for the generic locale model 
(not for
the gnu locale model), in the malloc allocator ;), and in _Temporary_buffer,
__get_temporary_buffer and libsupc++.

The latter are the oldest and puzzle me most. Why malloc?

Paolo.