Re: Placement new and explicit destruction
REH wrote:
On Jul 17, 5:15 am, James Kanze <james.ka...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jul 16, 11:35 pm, "Victor Bazarov" <v.Abaza...@comAcast.net>
wrote:
REH wrote:
This curiosity popped into my head on the way to work today. I
wouldn't actually do this, but just wondering. Is the following
defined behavior?
#include <new>
class T { };
int main()
{
T* p = new T();
p->~T();
new(p) T();
delete p;
return 0;
}
Yes. It's the pattern some folks are using to "forward constructor
calls". The functionality is so often asked for that the Committee
is changing the language to allow forwarding constructors, BTW.
It's definitly legal, but I don't quite see what it has to do
with forwarding constructors. If I've understood the proposals
correctly, a forwarding constructor is where one constructor
first calls another constructor to do the job, then does some
additional processing. Here, the poster first allocates and
constructs the object, then destructs it without deallocating
(leaving raw memory), then reconstructs it in the raw memory.
I don't want to speak for Victor, but what I think he was saying was
that placement new can be used to simulate one constructor calling
another. Thus:
class foo {
public:
foo(int i);
foo(double d);
};
foo::foo(double d)
{
new(this) foo(123);
}
You got it. I of course don't mean that the object should be
constructed twice, so the latter c-tor needs to have the destruction
in it too:
foo::foo(double d)
{
this->~foo();
new (this) foo(123);
}
V
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