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I've sent this issue to some friends on the C++ committee. The first response I received indicates that the person thinks the optimizer is within it's rights to optimize away the call to malloc. Here are some points, extracted from the response: "There is no observable behavior (a technical term in the standard) that violates requirements of the standard. In particular, malloc in