Re: Which constructor?

From:
ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
13 Mar 2014 13:24:54 GMT
Message-ID:
<constructor-20140313141718@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>
Victor Bazarov <v.bazarov@comcast.invalid> writes:

::std::string t ={ "beta" }; }

This is a copy-initialization, preceded by the same parameterized one in
order to construct a temporary, I think. The compiler is still allowed
to forgo creation of the temporary, but the copy c-tor has to exist and
be accessible.
Are you seeing any problem constructing an std::string?


  I am writing about this in my German-language C++ tutorial,
  and wanted to be sure that I explain it correctly. I would
  have guessed that it was copy initialization, but I wanted
  to be sure.

  The best thing to be sure would be a source of
  ::std::string, and then insert debug print statements into it.
  In fact, there is a GNU header:

namespace __gnu_debug
{
  /// Class std::basic_string with safety/checking/debug instrumentation.
  template<typename _CharT, typename _Traits = std::char_traits<_CharT>,
            typename _Allocator = std::allocator<_CharT> >
    class basic_string
  ...

  which has constructors:

basic_string(const _CharT* __s, size_type __n,
const _Allocator& __a = _Allocator())
: _Base(__gnu_debug::__check_string(__s, __n), __n, __a)
{ }

  and I tought I could just insert

::std::cerr << "this was just called\n";

  into the braces. But the compiler complains

debug\string [Error] 'cerr' in namespace 'std' does not name a type

  even after including ostream and iostream in this header and
  trying dozen of other approaches.

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