Override new operator in C++ while crtdbg.h is causing conflicts

Question

While trying out some memory tracking and preparation for my own memory manager, I tried to override the new operator. The article on flipcode was my main guideline in this proc

Answer 1

In one application of ours we resorted to renaming everywhere at the application level new with xnew and then defining the debug macro as acting only on xnew.

Using new and redefining it as a macro can have problems also with custom allocators. Unfortunately C++ syntax for allocation made debugging wrappers harder to do.