pure or not pure?

[Janice Caron]

On 10/04/2008, Janice Caron <caron800 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 10/04/2008, Koroskin Denis <2korden+dmd at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  OK, new is 'special', but what about malloc or my own allocator? (I happen
>  > to work in a gamedev and we never use new nor malloc).
>  >  I don't see how
>  >
>  >  special extern(C) void* malloc(size_t size);
>  >
>  >  differs from:
>  >
>  >  void* my_malloc(size_t size)
>  >  {
>  >    return malloc(size);
>  >  }

Sorry, I should have added: /neither/ of those functions is pure.

In fact, I strongly doubt that any function declared extern(C) will be
pure, for the simple and obvious reason that C doesn't have the "pure"
keyword. :-)