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From: leo@atcmp.nl (Leo  Willems)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: this and 0
Keywords: this assignment zero-comparison
Message-ID: <616@atcmpe.atcmp.nl>
Date: 7 Jun 90 20:10:45 GMT
Organization: AT Computing, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Since C++ 2.0 assignment to this is an anachronism.

Is it still ok to check the this pointer against 0 to figure out if
an object is on the heap or not?
I need to know this, despite the fact that I can define my
own class::operator new(), currently I'm using an ugly workaround.

If so, will this be the case in next releases?

If so, is there still the "all possible execution paths" catch?


Thanks, (I couldn't find it in the 2.0 syntax reference)


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