http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58239
--- Comment #5 from Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Andrew Pinski from comment #3) > (In reply to Gabriel Dos Reis from comment #2) > > OK, I see the emitted reference to 'operator delete', and I suspect I > > have an idea of why the compiler generated this reference even though > > it isn't used anywhere in the input source code. > > It is due to virtual deconstructors and in-charge vs out-of-charge > deconstructors happening. Indeed, that is what I figured after looking at the output of nm on pretty-printer.o. I should have caught that on my first reply.