Re: Copy-less initialization of a TR1 array

From:
zr <zvirack@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:09:00 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<e7e08d5f-2eb7-4830-8a00-256ea522959c@i24g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
On Nov 10, 6:35 pm, Maxim Yegorushkin <maxim.yegorush...@gmail.com>
wrote:

On Nov 10, 4:20 pm, Vidar Hasfjord <vattilah-gro...@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:

On Nov 10, 12:30 pm, zr <zvir...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

Is there a way to initialize a std::tr1::array with a pre-allocated
built-in array in a copy-less assignment, such that both will point t=

o

the same memory?


Yes, you can use 'placement new':

    typedef array <int, 4> A;
    int init [] = {1, 2, 3, 4};
    A& a = *new (init) A;


A may overflow init.

Of course, this is equivalent to

    array <int, 4> a = {1, 2, 3, 4};


Only with POD types. If you replace int with a non-trivial type, this
code will end up calling constructors twice and destructors only once.

--
Max


I had to write a small test to realize the problem, though i don't
understand what is really happening.
Max, or anyone could you please elaborate?

#include <array>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std::tr1;
using namespace std;

class A
{
public:
    A():value(10) { cout << "A() c-tor\n"; }
    A(const int& _value):value(_value) { cout << "A(const int& _a) c-tor
\n"; }
    ~A() { cout << "A d-tor\n"; }
    int value;
};

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    A cArray[] = { 1 , 2, 3, 4};

    array<A,4>& tr1Array = *new(cArray) array<A,4>;

        for (int i=0; i<4; i++)
        cout << cArray[i].value << " ";
    cout << endl;
    for (int i=0; i<4; i++)
        cout << tr1Array[i].value << " ";
    cout << endl;

    return 0;
}

output:
A(const int& _a) c-tor
A(const int& _a) c-tor
A(const int& _a) c-tor
A(const int& _a) c-tor
A() c-tor
A() c-tor
A() c-tor
A() c-tor
10 10 10 10
10 10 10 10
A d-tor
A d-tor
A d-tor
A d-tor

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