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From: ttwang@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Thomas Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: call constructors explicitly
Message-ID: <1989Oct12.201915.28377@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 12 Oct 89 20:19:15 GMT
Reply-To: ttwang@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Thomas Wang)
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Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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I forgot how to call a constructor explicitly.  Can someone e-mail me
the answer?

int spc[1024];
main()
{
  foo* obj = (foo*) spc;
  obj->foo(); // foo::foo() is constructor
  obj->print();
}

This example blows up in AT&T cfront.  Is there another way that is
portable?

 -Thomas Wang ("This is a fantastic comedy that Ataru and his wife Lum, an
                invader from space, cause excitement involving their neighbors."
                  - from a badly translated Urusei Yatsura poster)

                                                     ttwang@polyslo.calpoly.edu