microsoft / microsoft/mimalloc

MI_OSX_INTERPOSE=ON does not work on older macOS: build fails with undefined __Znam etc.

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Description

On older macOS `MI_OSX_INTERPOSE=ON` does not work – build fails with:
```
Undefined symbols:
"__Znam", referenced from:
__mi_cxx_interposes in alloc.c.o
"__ZnwmRKSt9nothrow_t", referenced from:
__mi_cxx_interposes in alloc.c.o
"__Znwm", referenced from:
__mi_cxx_interposes in alloc.c.o
"__ZnamRKSt9nothrow_t", referenced from:
__mi_cxx_interposes in alloc.c.o
```
These were introduced in https://github.com/microsoft/mimalloc/commit/c47de7eb9090cf8c0a5f307a74437cf927a361be#diff-09d94a49fa7395392e824b1a84c3c76e360ed043aef99205441dc0a199a8a1b8R92

Is this something fixable or not?

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Start with the alloc.c.o interposition code introduced by commit c47de7eb9090cf8c0a5f307a74437cf927a361be and reproduce the MI_OSX_INTERPOSE=ON build on an older macOS version. Trace the undefined C++ allocation symbols and verify that the older-platform build completes successfully without breaking the interposition behavior.

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c, cpp
Domain
build-system
Issue type
Bug
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Estimated time
3-5 days
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