Re: user-defined op= for type with reference member

From:
"Leigh Johnston" <leigh@i42.co.uk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:27:51 +0100
Message-ID:
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"Paul Bibbings" <paul.bibbings@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:87iq5pe056.fsf@gmail.com...

Since I have used the following in another post, can someone just
confirm (or otherwise) whether the following definition of a
user-defined op= for a type with a reference member is well defined?

  class AType
  {
  public:
     AType(int& i)
        : i_(i)
     { }
     // ...
     AType& operator=(const AType& other)
     {
        if (this != &other)
        {
           this->~Atype();
           new (this) AType(other);
        }
        return *this;
     }
  private:
     int& i_;
  };

According to my reading of the example given in [basic.life] ?3.8/7 I
believe that it is, in this instance (since the constructor doesn't
throw, except on bad_alloc).

Regards

Paul Bibbings


Attempting to use this trick to reseat a reference or destruct/re-construct
const members is UB IIRC, there was a thread about this a few months ago I
think.

/Leigh

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