Re: pfMemory clarification

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Marcus Barnes (marcus++at++multigen.com)
Fri, 18 Apr 1997 19:43:09 -0700

On Apr 18, 9:31pm, Swaminathan N. wrote:
>
> What I've done (within the limitations of the 6.x compiler) to allocate and
> destroy arrays of objects in shared memory is this...
>
> // to allocate values[num]
> object *values = new (pfMemory::malloc(sizeof(object)*num, arena))
> object[num];
> // to delete the above
> for (int i=0; i<num; i++)
> values[i].~object();
> pfMemory::free(values);
>
> yucky, but I don't know of any other way of ensuring arrays of constructed
> objects in shared memory.

In your example, the value objects are not properly constructed. Calling the
the dtor explicitly is permitted, but you cannot arrange for Performer to do
the right thing in any case, say for an array of objects attached as
pfUserData.

Regards.

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