Re: deletion of mem alloated using placement new

From:
Gianni Mariani <gi3nospam@mariani.ws>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sat, 01 Sep 2007 05:37:57 +1000
Message-ID:
<46d86e18$0$12085$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au>
carvalho.miguel@gmail.com wrote:
....

I think the OP just wants to know if what was posted would work. It had
problems and I corrected them. As for why the OP wants to use
calloc/free, I don't know but I can come up with at least 2 reasons why
it might be interesting to do so.

whats with the destructor calling? when you delete a pointer the
destructor is automatically called.
also is perfect valid to delete a NULL pointer, so no need to check if
it exists.

also why use malloc/calloc and free? why not new/delete? i cant see a
valid reason in this example to not use the standard c++ allocate/
deallocate operators.
so simple, no need to complicate it:

template <class T>
class Allocator
{
    public:
        static T* Allocate()
        {
            return new T;
        }

        static void Deallocate( T* t )
        {
            delete t;
        }
};

class Test
{
    public:
        Test()
        {
            std::cout << "Test::Test()" << std::endl;
        }

        ~Test()
        {
            std::cout << "Test::~Test()" << std::endl;
        }
};

int main( int argc, char** argv )
{
    Test *t = Allocator<Test>::Allocate();
    Allocator<Test>::Deallocate( t );

    return 0;
}

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