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Re: [std-proposals] Relax the restriction on the operand of a single-object delete-expression

From: Jason McKesson <jmckesson_at_[hidden]>
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2022 10:59:51 -0400
On Sat, Sep 3, 2022 at 9:18 AM blacktea hamburger via Std-Proposals
<std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> So why is there IOC? Because it is to prevent undefined behavior from happening (but only for trivial types).

No, that's not why IOC exists.

IOC was created because a lot of low-level C++ programming involves
C-isms like just pretending that objects exist in storage and using
them, rather than using the C++ mechanisms that exist to create those
objects. IOC effectively canonizes some of those C-isms.

Using `delete` directly isn't a C-ism. So the question stands: why do
people need to be able to do what you're talking about?

Received on 2022-09-03 15:00:27