bug #1409: make EIGEN_MAKE_ALIGNED_OPERATOR_NEW* macros empty in c++17 mode:

- this helps clang 5 and 6 to support alignas in STL's containers.
 - this makes the public API of our (and users) classes cleaner

Eigen/src/Core/util/Macros.h

@@ -698,6 +698,23 @@
   #endif
 #endif
 
+// NOTE: the required Apple's clang version is very conservative 
+//       and it could be that XCode 9 works just fine.
+// NOTE: the MSVC version is based on https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support
+//       and not tested.
+#ifndef EIGEN_HAS_CXX17_OVERALIGN
+#if EIGEN_MAX_CPP_VER>=17 && EIGEN_COMP_CXXVER>=17 && (                                 \
+           (EIGEN_COMP_MSVC >= 1912)                                                    \
+        || (EIGEN_GNUC_AT_LEAST(7,0))                                                   \
+        || ((!defined(__apple_build_version__)) && (EIGEN_COMP_CLANG>=500))             \
+        || (( defined(__apple_build_version__)) && (__apple_build_version__>=10000000)) \
+      )
+#define EIGEN_HAS_CXX17_OVERALIGN 1
+#else
+#define EIGEN_HAS_CXX17_OVERALIGN 0
+#endif
+#endif
+
 #if defined(EIGEN_CUDACC) && EIGEN_HAS_CONSTEXPR
   // While available already with c++11, this is useful mostly starting with c++14 and relaxed constexpr rules
   #if defined(__NVCC__)

Eigen/src/Core/util/Memory.h

@@ -789,6 +789,17 @@ template<typename T> void swap(scoped_array<T> &a,scoped_array<T> &b)
 *** Implementation of EIGEN_MAKE_ALIGNED_OPERATOR_NEW [_IF]                ***
 *****************************************************************************/
 
+#if EIGEN_HAS_CXX17_OVERALIGN
+
+// C++17 -> no need to bother about alignment anymore :)
+
+#define EIGEN_MAKE_ALIGNED_OPERATOR_NEW_NOTHROW(NeedsToAlign)
+#define EIGEN_MAKE_ALIGNED_OPERATOR_NEW_IF(NeedsToAlign)
+#define EIGEN_MAKE_ALIGNED_OPERATOR_NEW
+#define EIGEN_MAKE_ALIGNED_OPERATOR_NEW_IF_VECTORIZABLE_FIXED_SIZE(Scalar,Size)
+
+#else
+
 #if EIGEN_MAX_ALIGN_BYTES!=0
   #define EIGEN_MAKE_ALIGNED_OPERATOR_NEW_NOTHROW(NeedsToAlign) \
       void* operator new(std::size_t size, const std::nothrow_t&) EIGEN_NO_THROW { \
@@ -831,6 +842,8 @@ template<typename T> void swap(scoped_array<T> &a,scoped_array<T> &b)
          ((EIGEN_MAX_ALIGN_BYTES>=32) && ((sizeof(Scalar)*(Size))%(EIGEN_MAX_ALIGN_BYTES/2)==0)) ||    \
          ((EIGEN_MAX_ALIGN_BYTES>=64) && ((sizeof(Scalar)*(Size))%(EIGEN_MAX_ALIGN_BYTES/4)==0))   )))
 
+#endif
+
 /****************************************************************************/
 
 /** \class aligned_allocator

test/dynalloc.cpp

@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ template<typename T> void check_custom_new_delete()
     delete[] t;
   }
   
-#if EIGEN_MAX_ALIGN_BYTES>0
+#if EIGEN_MAX_ALIGN_BYTES>0 && (!EIGEN_HAS_CXX17_OVERALIGN)
   {
     T* t = static_cast<T *>((T::operator new)(sizeof(T)));
     (T::operator delete)(t, sizeof(T));