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2024-12-19

2130. Over-aligned types in new-expressions

[Adopted at the February, 2016 meeting.]

According to 7.6.2.8 [expr.new] paragraph 1,

It is implementation-defined whether over-aligned types are supported (6.7.3 [basic.align]).

However, there is no mechanism for informing an allocation function of the required alignment for over-aligned types. Nevertheless, 6.7.3 [basic.align] paragraph 9 says:

Additionally, a request for runtime allocation of dynamic storage for which the requested alignment cannot be honored shall be treated as an allocation failure.

This seems contradictory.

Proposed resolution (October, 2015):

Change 6.7.3 [basic.align] paragraph 9 as follows:

If a request for a specific extended alignment in a specific context is not supported by an implementation, the program is ill-formed. Additionally, a request for runtime allocation of dynamic storage for which the requested alignment cannot be honored shall be treated as an allocation failure.