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From: fredriks@kuling.UUCP (Fredrik Stax{ng)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Constructors and new
Message-ID: <1022@kuling.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jun 89 19:22:01 GMT
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Reply-To: fredriks@kuling.UUCP (Fredrik Stax{ng)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
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I also had this problem when I tried to implement reference counting.

Because I wanted the class to be derivable I couldn't use the malloc
hack (and did not want to), but changed the new() function to set the
pointer new_last to the last new'ed object.
I think there should be a defined way of doing this.

I also encountered another problem. I wanted to get the pointer class
to behave as a native pointer, but I didn't manage to get -> operator
working. If the compiler had recognized the equivalence a->b <=> (*a).b
this had been easy.



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Fredrik Stax{ng                | C looks like a mix of Algol and TECO.
CS Student@Uppsala University  |              -- KPJ Jaakkola
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