Re: Returning reference to pointer

On Feb 19, 3:23 pm, Haquejiel <Haquej...@gmail.com> wrote:


This doesn't deal with your problem specifically but I've been in
similar situations. One technique I've found useful for these kinds of
things is printing the value of 'this' in your debugging statements:

struct Object {
  Object (void) { cout << this << ": constructed" << endl; }
  ~Object (void) { cout << this << ": destructed" << endl; }
};

Object& someFunction()
{
  cout << "someFunction entered" << endl;
  Object *newObject = new Object();
  cout << "someFunction returning" << endl;
  return *(newObject);
}

int main()
{
   Object outer = someFunction();
   cout << "Before" << endl;
   {
      Object inner = someFunction();
   }
   cout << "After" << endl;
   return 0;

}

Prints something like this:

someFunction entered
0x3d4fa8: constructed
someFunction returning
Before
someFunction entered
0x3d4fc8: constructed
someFunction returning
0x22ff40: destructed
After
0x22ff50: destructed

And shows that the ones destroyed aren't the same as the ones you
created.

Jason