Re: Why '(&b) -> f() ' is static binding?

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Date:
Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:57:12 GMT
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On 2007-10-23 11:25, James Kanze wrote:

On Oct 23, 9:46 am, Markus Moll <m...@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de>
wrote:

Erik Wikstr??m wrote:

3.7.2 ??3 might also be relevant: "If a named automatic object has
initialization or a destructor with side effects, it shall not be
destroyed before the end of its block, ..."


This is in my opinion just a very bad formulation. It is meant
to describe that the implementation cannot destroy an object
earlier than at the end of the scope if the effect would be
visible. I don't think it is meant to limit explicit
destruction, although at the moment it is admittedly unclear
if it does.


It's hard to say, but from the context, I think the above refers
to what an implementation is allowed to do: an implementation
cannot call the destructor of an object with a non trivial
destructor before the object goes out of scope, simply because
the object appears unused. I don't think it really necessary to
say this---the standard describes very clearly when the
abstract machine should call the destructor, and an
implementation can only differ from the abstract machine when it
can prove that the difference leads to no change in observable
behavior. But I can imagine that in the 1990's, when this text
was being formulated, that this wasn't so "obvious"; I know that
some early compilers I used complained that the variable wasn't
used when I used RAII or similar patterns, and of course in C
(where there are no destructors), the compiler is free to
eliminate the variable as soon as it is no longer used.

I'm very sure that something like:

    {
        T var ;
        // ...
        var.~T() ;
        new (&var) T ;
        // ...
    }

is legal and well defined (unless the constructor of T happens
to raise an exception). I'm less sure about changing the type.


3.8 ??7:

"If, after the lifetime of an object has ended and before the storage
which the object occupied is reused or released, a new object is created
at the storage location which the original object, a pointerthat pointed
to the original object, a reference that referred to the original
object, or a name of the original object will automaticalle refer to the
new object and, once the lifetime of the new object has started, can be
used to manipulate the new object, if:

 * the storage of the new object exactly overlays the storage location
   which the original object occupied, and

 * the new object is of the same type as the original object (ignoring
   the top-level cv-qualifiers), and

 * the original object was a most derived object (1.8)of type T and the
   new object is a most derived object of type T (that is, they are not
   base class subobjects)."

To me it seems like all but the last condition (perhaps with an addition
for the cv-qualifiers) are superfluous, since most derived objects of
the same type should have the same size and are of the same size, but
there might be some subtle points I am missing.

--
Erik Wikstr??m

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