Re: zero memory
On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 05:39:34 -0700, Gianni Mariani
<gi3nospam@mariani.ws> wrote:
In this case, you're calling new on CMYSTRUCT and I expect that you'll
call delete on a MYSTRUCT. That's undefined. Bad things will happen if
don't modify that habbit.
why do you expect that? ok i have not added any virtual dtor as was
not providing a full class. just showing the principle.
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or make the MYSTRUCT a class
MYSTRUCT is a class.
technically you are right, although what I meant was to make it a
"real" class with ctor/dtor etc.
I just thought of yet another way - this one will create a default
constructed or zero initialized POD object depending on what type of
pointer you're trying to assign it to.
struct InitObj
{
template <typename T>
operator T * ()
{
return new T();
}
};
// usage - template automagically figures out which type to new
PMYSTRUCT * mys = InitObj();
int * z = InitObj();
Note the lack of a memset call and note that the code will work for POD
types as well as non POD types.
ok that's in a way elegant, but a bit difficult for maintenance
programmers to troubleshoot
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