When the global new and delete operators aren't declared, Clang
provides and implicit declaration, but this declaration currently
always uses the default visibility. This is a problem when the
C++ library itself is being built with non-default visibility because
the implicit declaration will force the new and delete operators to
have the default visibility unlike the rest of the library.
The existing workaround is to use assembly to enforce the visiblity:
https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/zircon/+/master/system/ulib/zxcpp/new.cpp#108
but that solution is not always available, e.g. in the case of of
libFuzzer which is using an internal version of libc++ that's also built
with -fvisibility=hidden where the existing behavior is causing issues.
This change introduces a new option -fvisibility-global-new-delete-hidden
which makes the implicit declaration of the global new and delete
operators hidden.
This should just be LANGOPT, not BENIGN_LANGOPT, because it changes how we construct the AST (in an incompatible way).
Also, could you please remove the "default" from the description of this LANGOPT (and the previous one)? "default visibility" means something else, so this is confusing as written.