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by worik 1576 days ago
What dumb design.

I thought the constructor returned a pointer to the memory created.

No return? Stupid!
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gpderetta 1576 days ago
FWIW, constructors do not "create" (I assume you mean allocate) memory. That's the job of operator new. A constructor, given a block of untyped memory, will construct an object in it.
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worik 1576 days ago
Right.

Been a long time.

I would still expect a constructor to return. How can you tell if it failed?

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