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-rw-r--r--libcxx/docs/DesignDocs/VisibilityMacros.rst17
-rw-r--r--libcxx/include/new2
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/libcxx/docs/DesignDocs/VisibilityMacros.rst b/libcxx/docs/DesignDocs/VisibilityMacros.rst
index f45d67b17ea..67886e392ae 100644
--- a/libcxx/docs/DesignDocs/VisibilityMacros.rst
+++ b/libcxx/docs/DesignDocs/VisibilityMacros.rst
@@ -112,14 +112,15 @@ Visibility Macros
Mark a symbol as being exported by the libc++ library. This macro must be
applied to all `operator new` and `operator delete` overloads.
- **Windows Behavior**: When using the Microsoft CRT, all the `operator new` and
- `operator delete` overloads are defined statically in `msvcrt.lib`. Marking
- them as `dllimport` in the libc++ `<new>` header is therefore undesirable: if
- we were to mark them as `dllimport` and then link against libc++, source files
- which included `<new>` would end up linking against libc++'s `operator new`
- and `operator delete`, while source files which did not include `<new>` would
- end up linking against msvcrt's `operator new` and `operator delete`, which
- would be a confusing and potentially error-prone inconsistency.
+ **Windows Behavior**: The `operator new` and `operator delete` overloads
+ should not be marked as `dllimport`; if they were, source files including the
+ `<new>` header (either directly or transitively) would lose the ability to use
+ local overloads of `operator new` and `operator delete`. On Windows, this
+ macro therefore expands to `__declspec(dllexport)` when building the library
+ and has an empty definition otherwise. A related caveat is that libc++ must be
+ included on the link line before `msvcrt.lib`, otherwise Microsoft's
+ definitions of `operator new` and `operator delete` inside `msvcrt.lib` will
+ end up being used instead of libc++'s.
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diff --git a/libcxx/include/new b/libcxx/include/new
index 16b3011efb2..e77d3e6d624 100644
--- a/libcxx/include/new
+++ b/libcxx/include/new
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ _LIBCPP_FUNC_VIS new_handler get_new_handler() _NOEXCEPT;
} // std
-#if defined(_LIBCPP_MSVCRT) && !defined(_LIBCPP_BUILDING_LIBRARY)
+#if defined(_WIN32) && !defined(_LIBCPP_BUILDING_LIBRARY)
# define _LIBCPP_NEW_DELETE_VIS
#else
# define _LIBCPP_NEW_DELETE_VIS _LIBCPP_FUNC_VIS
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