Re: Question on auto_ptr, Which function will call first?

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Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:36:38 +0800

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James Kanze wrote:

NOTE A, obviously. The trivial reason is because that is what
the language requires. Of course, the reason the language
requires this is that it couldn't possibly work otherwise: you
have to allocate the memory for the object before you can
construct it.

I'm debugging through this code and found that *NOTE A* will called
first. Can someone explained it?

Think. What would it mean if NOTE B were called before NOTE A.

When I trace into the *new* function, the *siz* value is 4. I don't know
why it will be 4?

Because that's the size of a TraceHeap object on your machine.

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Thanks, James.
  Now, I understand the important concept of " allocating before
construction ".

I think the author overload the operator new of TraceHeap is just to
show some message.

     static void* operator new(size_t siz) { //*****NOTE A
         void* p = ::operator new(siz);
         cout << "Allocating TraceHeap object on the heap "
             << "at address " << p << endl;
         return p;
     }

the parameter *size_t siz* will be filled at compiling time. So, the
compiler will set the siz value to sizeof(TraceHeap).

Is my understanding right? Thanks.

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