Re: zero memory
bark wrote:
On Apr 6, 8:39 pm, Gianni Mariani <gi3nos...@mariani.ws> wrote:
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 amemsetcall and note that the code will work for POD
types as well as non POD types.
If in the class there is a C-character array, how does one initialize
such an array to 0's?
The standard requires a conforming compiler to do that. I suspect a
compiler will do whatever is best for the platform.
This code is safe, in the sense that if you call memset on just any
class, you're likely to run into some interesting problems. This code
will only initialize to zero those types that are POD. It means that if
one day you change MYSTRUCT to have a default constructor, the code
above will do what you expect.
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