On 19/08/2012 17:19, Richard Moore wrote: > On 19 August 2012 16:18, Till Oliver Knoll <till.oliver.kn...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> However it never occured to me to actually try such a thing. I mean, >> what would be a practical scenario where one wanted to explicitly call a >> d'tor? So clean up resources before the actual object gets destroyed >> (assuming that the code inside the d'tor would take care not to delete >> resources twice, such that it would be okay to call a d'tor several times)? > It's used when you're writing custom allocators such as a SLAB > allocator. In that situation you want to separate the running of the > destructor from the memory allocation. It can also be used with placement new operator.
Cheers, Sean > > Cheers > > Rich. > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > Interest@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
