Re: avoiding temporaries
"Marek Vondrak" <none@none.com> wrote in message
news:e776rl$f7l$1@ns.felk.cvut.cz...
Dear group,
I would like to ask if the following code is legal C++ and whether NRVO
optimization is applicable at operator=(). Consider the following example:
[...]
Vector operator=( const Vector & v )
{
this->~Vector();
new( this ) Vector( v ); // [1]
}
This implementation is terrible for so many reasons. Herb Sutter spent 8 pages
explaining why (see Exceptional C++, 41). Moreover, it won't compile as the
function is missing return statement, and assignment operator normally returns
reference, not copy. So in this case a good solution should be something like
this:
Vector& operator = (Vector v)
{
v.swap(*this);
return *this;
}
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