[cxx-abi-dev] C++14 sized deallocation

Richard Smith richardsmith at google.com
Sun Dec 14 20:36:54 UTC 2014


On 13 December 2014 at 22:11, Jason Merrill <jason at redhat.com> wrote:

> It seems that clang deals with the C++14 sized deallocation functions by
> emitting weak definitions wherever they are used.  What is the advantage of
> this approach over a single interposable definition in the support library?


It doesn't require an interposable definition in a support library. =) On
some systems, we link against a system-provided library instead of our own
support library, and that library cannot be relied on to provide the sized
deallocation function.
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