Hi All, What do you think about optional set of new/delete operators which clean memory in delete() by filling it with zeros. I mean an implementation with the standard syntax, so that any old program using the standard new/delete can be linked with the modified version of new/delete without any change in the program text and even without its recompilation. I have never heard whether this simple idea was implemented anywhere. In fact, these operators are useful for sequre aplications, which are not expected to leave significant information in the dynamic memory. This is also useful for debug of any program that uses direct allocations with raw pointers, the style which it known to be prone to errors. The use of already deleted information is more likely to be detected, if this information is physically deleted. The cleaning new/delete operators might be made very simple (almost trivial, except exception safety) and perhaps completely portable. Does this idea look useful? Regards Igor Smirnov