Prior to this change LLVM would happily elide a call to any allocation
function and a call to any free function operating on the same unused
pointer. This can cause problems in some obscure cases, for example if
the body of operator::new can be inlined but the body of
operator::delete can't, as in this example from jyknight:
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int allocs = 0;
void *operator new(size_t n) {
allocs++;
void *mem = malloc(n);
if (!mem) abort();
return mem;
}
__attribute__((noinline)) void operator delete(void *mem) noexcept {
allocs--;
free(mem);
}
void deleteit(int*i) { delete i; }
int main() {
int*i = new int;
deleteit(i);
if (allocs != 0)
printf("MEMORY LEAK! allocs: %d\n", allocs);
}This patch addresses the issue by introducing the concept of an
allocator function family and uses it to make sure that alloc/free
function pairs are only removed if they're in the same family.
The vec_malloc/vec_calloc/vec_realloc/vec_free functions look like they should be a distinct family.