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From: Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@inria.fr>
To: Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>
Cc: gcc-patches List <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>,
	libstdc++@gcc.gnu.org,
	    "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: RFA (libstdc++): PATCH to implement C++17 over-aligned new
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2016 08:32:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1609080901360.3233@laptop-mg.saclay.inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADzB+2kJRV14hZX1rGz5V_UCpSB7MdVQPh4OM=vYOsw6ZDUNkA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 8 Sep 2016, Jason Merrill wrote:

> This patch adds support for C++17 allocation of types with alignment
> greater than max_align_t using 'new'.  This is on by default in C++17
> and can also be enabled for other -std= with -falign-new.

Great :-)

> If a user wants to use a different boundary than alignof(max_align_t),
> perhaps because their malloc provides more or less alignment than
> glibc's, they can specify -falign-new=<N>.
>
> The patch also adds a warning about allocating an over-aligned type
> without using an aligned new-operator, which is enabled by -Wall.
>
> libstdc++ folk: Does my configury handling of different C library
> functions that might be usable for aligned allocation make sense?  Is
> the (standard-conforming) implementation of the nothrow allocation
> function OK despite Jonathan's comment in bug 68210?  OK for trunk?

Do we want a generic fallback implementation (similar to 
gcc/config/i386/gmm_malloc.h)? A windows version with _aligned_malloc / 
_aligned_free would also be possible.

-- 
Marc Glisse

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-08  7:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-08  7:10 Jason Merrill
2016-09-08  8:32 ` Marc Glisse [this message]
2016-09-08 11:18   ` Jonathan Wakely
2016-09-09 21:40     ` Jason Merrill
2016-09-10  7:03       ` Christophe Lyon
2016-09-10 10:14         ` Marc Glisse
2016-09-10 10:35           ` Jonathan Wakely
2016-09-11  9:14         ` Christophe Lyon
2016-09-11  9:55           ` Jonathan Wakely
2016-09-11  9:56             ` Jonathan Wakely
2016-09-11 10:20             ` Christophe Lyon
2016-09-11 12:09               ` Jonathan Wakely
2016-09-13 13:04         ` Szabolcs Nagy
2016-09-10 10:14       ` Jonathan Wakely
2016-09-11  7:09       ` Andreas Schwab
2016-09-12 21:13         ` Jason Merrill
2016-09-13  8:41           ` Christophe Lyon
2016-09-13 12:37           ` Andreas Schwab
2016-09-13 12:54             ` Jason Merrill
2016-09-13 13:18               ` Andreas Schwab
2016-09-13 13:21                 ` Jason Merrill
2016-09-14 12:13                   ` Andreas Schwab
2016-09-14 16:11                     ` Christophe Lyon
2016-09-14 16:37                       ` Jason Merrill
2016-09-15 10:00                         ` Rainer Orth
2016-09-15 12:23                           ` Christophe Lyon
2016-09-15 20:09                             ` Jason Merrill
2016-09-16  7:12                               ` Rainer Orth
2016-09-16  8:15                                 ` Christophe Lyon
2016-09-16  9:14                                 ` Jonathan Wakely
2016-09-16  9:51                                   ` Marc Glisse
2016-09-16 11:12                                     ` Jonathan Wakely
2016-09-16 13:13                                       ` Jonathan Wakely
2016-09-16 13:17                                         ` Rainer Orth
2016-09-16 18:19                                         ` Jonathan Wakely
2016-09-12 14:15       ` Rainer Orth
2016-09-12 16:19         ` Jonathan Wakely
2016-09-12 18:57           ` Jason Merrill
2016-09-14 12:11           ` Rainer Orth
2016-09-08 11:00 ` Jonathan Wakely
2017-11-24 14:26 ` Marc Glisse
2017-11-29 21:23   ` Jason Merrill

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