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From: shap@delrey.sgi.com (Jonathan Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: calling constructor (again)
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Date: 24 Oct 89 22:37:45 GMT
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In article <1989Oct13.175853.24335@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> ttwang@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Thomas Wang) writes:
>I still have not solved the problem of directly calling the constructor.
>
...
>
>The proper sequence must be: create space, register with reference, call
>object constructor.

In C++2.0:

Try overloading operator new() to call ::new to get the space, do the
registration, and return, after which the constructor will get called
for you.

Jonathan S. Shapiro
Synergistic Computing Associates