[Bug c++/78104] optimizer doesn't grok C++ new/delete yet

pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org
Tue Oct 25 06:18:00 GMT 2016


https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=78104

--- Comment #3 from Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Markus Trippelsdorf from comment #0)
> A simple example:
> 
> int main() {
>   int *ob = new int();
>   delete ob;
> }
> 
> clang optimizes it away:

Which is funny considering what Chris Lattner  wrote in PR 23383 comment #4:
This would not be legal, there is no reason operator new can't return a pointer
that already exists in the program.


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