Re: friend operator new/delete - allow obj instantiation only in
heap - howto?
WittyGuy wrote:
Hi all,
All I want to achieve is restricting the object instantiation in stack
and allowing the application to instantiate the object only in heap
using new operator. How to achieve this?
I tried out with the following code.
Could you please give me the reason for the compilation error for the
following code:
#include <iostream>
class Temp
{
public:
friend void* ::operator new (size_t);
friend void ::operator delete (void* pDel);
private:
Temp ()
{
std::cout << "Temp Ctor" << std::endl;
}
~Temp ()
{
std::cout << "Temp Dtor" << std::endl;
}
};
int
main ()
{
Temp *pT = new Temp;
delete pT;
// Temp tempObj; // Should be disallowed
return 0;
}
Compilation error received:
---------------------------------------
heap.cpp: In function 'int main()':
heap.cpp:9: error: 'Temp::Temp()' is private
heap.cpp:22: error: within this context
heap.cpp:13: error: 'Temp::~Temp()' is private
heap.cpp:23: error: within this context
Please help me in instantiating the Temp object only in heap, not in
stack.
thanks
Sukumar R
Your code is overly complicated, to prevent object creation/destruction
on stack, one just needs to declare a private destructor. Think about
the life time of a stack object. It's created upon entrance of the
function and destroyed before leaving the function. The compiler must
have access to both constructors and destructor. It's inconvenient or
maybe undesirable to declare private constructors but it's always
straightforward to declare a private destructor.
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