Title
Deallocation functions returning void
Status
open
Section
6.7.6.5.3 [basic.stc.dynamic.deallocation]
Submitter
Timur Doumler

Created on 2025-05-08.00:00:00 last changed 1 month ago

Messages

Date: 2025-05-08.00:00:00

Subclause 6.7.6.5.3 [basic.stc.dynamic.deallocation] paragraph 3 specifies:

Each deallocation function shall return void. ...

It has caused confusion in the marketplace whether that is a syntactic constraint on the return type of a deallocation function, or a semantic constraint on the behavior (e.g. a deallocation cannot perform a longjmp).

Possible resolution:

Change in 6.7.6.5.3 [basic.stc.dynamic.deallocation] paragraph 3 as follows:

Each A deallocation function shall have a declared return type of type void. ...
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