Re: [Boost-users] time date newbie problem

Richard wrote:

In article <4772F58B.8080908@crystalclearsoftware.com>, Jeff Garland writes:

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The new is NOT superfluous. The constructor of std::locale takes a pointer to a reference counted facet -- effectively taking ownership of the memory.

Does it call delete on it?

Yes -- there's an internal reference count in the facet so that facets can be shared by multiple streams. Jeff