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

From: blacktea hamburger <greenteahamburger_at_[hidden]>
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2022 21:29:19 +0800
But even though operator new is also a C++ tool, it still implicitly
creates objects.

On Sat, Sep 3, 2022 at 11:00 PM Jason McKesson via Std-Proposals <
std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 3, 2022 at 9:18 AM blacktea hamburger via Std-Proposals
> <std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >
> > 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?
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Received on 2022-10-01 13:29:47