Re: [C++ PATCH] Emit DECL_EXPR for vla_p new operator (PR c++/39367)

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

Jason Merrill wrote:
> Hmm...I wonder why we're messing with a VLA type at all here.  Given new
> T[n], why is it important to say that the allocation returns T(*)[n]
> rather than T*?

I agree that this seems like overkill.

Certainly from a C++ type point of view, "new int[n]" has type "int *";
thus what we're doing seems like it could potentially even yield
incorrect information for typeid, throwing exceptions, etc.  I don't
know if we correct that at some later point.

Thanks,

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