When allocating a memory buffer, we use a non-throwing new so that we
can explicitly handle memory buffers that are too large to fit into
memory. However, when exceptions are disabled, LLVM installs a custom
new handler
(90109d4448/llvm/lib/Support/InitLLVM.cpp (L61))
that explicitly crashes when we run out of memory
(de14b749fe/llvm/lib/Support/ErrorHandling.cpp (L188))
and that means this particular out-of-memory situation cannot be
gracefully handled.
This was discovered while working on #embed
(https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/68620) on Windows and
resulted in a crash rather than the preprocessor issuing a diagnostic as
expected.
This patch switches away from the non-throwing new to a call to malloc
(and free), which will return a null pointer without calling a custom
new handler. It is the only instance in Clang or LLVM that I could find
which used a non-throwing new, so I did not think we would need anything
more involved than this change.
Testing this would be highly platform dependent and so it does not come
with test coverage. And because it doesn't change behavior that users
are likely to be able to observe, it does not come with a release note.
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