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Re: Destructors can copying objects

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On Sun, 03 Apr 2011 12:29:00 +0100, Leigh Johnston wrote:

> On 03/04/2011 10:32, Balog Pal wrote:
>> "Ruben Safir" <ruben@mrbrklyn.com>
>>> I don't think I have a copy constructor, which might be the problem
>>> although it never had been.
>>
>> Look up "rule of 3". If you have a dtor, you will need a copy cotor and
>> operator= too, or must disable them.
>>
>>
> Like most "rules" mentioned in this newsgroup the "rule of 3" is a
> nonsense: you may be adding a virtual dtor simply to make a base class
> polymorphic and have no need for a copy ctor and assignment operator or
> you may be relying on RAII and the behaviour of the implicitly defined
> special member functions.
> 
> /Leigh


Its hard for me to make that judgment though, without a more concrete
understanding of how destructors are triggered with auto values.

I'm not sure why any allocated memory created with new and dropped on 
the heap is auto destructed

Ruben

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Destructors can copying objects Ruben Safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2011-04-02 12:58 +0000
  Re: Destructors can copying objects Volker Lukas <vlukas@gmx.de> - 2011-04-02 15:29 +0200
    Re: Destructors can copying objects Ruben Safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2011-04-03 02:59 +0000
      Re: Destructors can copying objects "Balog Pal" <pasa@lib.hu> - 2011-04-03 11:32 +0200
        Re: Destructors can copying objects Leigh Johnston <leigh@i42.co.uk> - 2011-04-03 12:29 +0100
          Re: Destructors can copying objects Bart van Ingen Schenau <bart@ingen.ddns.info> - 2011-04-04 13:43 +0200
            Re: Destructors can copying objects Michael Doubez <michael.doubez@free.fr> - 2011-04-05 01:26 -0700
          Re: Destructors can copying objects Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2011-04-04 14:03 -0700
            Re: Destructors can copying objects Ruben Safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2011-04-04 21:10 +0000
            Re: Destructors can copying objects Leigh Johnston <leigh@i42.co.uk> - 2011-04-04 22:28 +0100
          Re: Destructors can copying objects Ruben Safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2011-04-04 21:07 +0000
            Re: Destructors can copying objects Leigh Johnston <leigh@i42.co.uk> - 2011-04-04 22:31 +0100
              Re: Destructors can copying objects Leigh Johnston <leigh@i42.co.uk> - 2011-04-04 22:43 +0100
              Re: Destructors can copying objects Ruben Safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2011-04-04 22:38 +0000
                Re: Destructors can copying objects Leigh Johnston <leigh@i42.co.uk> - 2011-04-04 23:42 +0100
                Re: Destructors can copying objects Ruben Safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2011-04-04 22:54 +0000
      Re: Destructors can copying objects James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com> - 2011-04-03 10:07 -0700
        Re: Destructors can copying objects Ruben Safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2011-04-04 21:14 +0000
        Re: Destructors can copying objects Ruben Safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2011-04-04 21:17 +0000
          Re: Destructors can copying objects LR <lruss@superlink.net> - 2011-04-05 01:52 -0400
    Re: Destructors can copying objects Ruben Safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2011-04-03 03:08 +0000
      Re: Destructors can copying objects Paavo Helde <myfirstname@osa.pri.ee> - 2011-04-03 02:11 -0500
      Re: Destructors can copying objects Volker Lukas <vlukas@gmx.de> - 2011-04-03 12:02 +0200
      Re: Destructors can copying objects Peter Remmers <p.remmers@expires-2011-04-30.arcornews.de> - 2011-04-03 12:14 +0200
        Re: Destructors can copying objects Roberto Waltman <usenet@rwaltman.com> - 2011-04-03 18:16 -0400
          Re: Destructors can copying objects Ruben Safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2011-04-15 23:06 +0000
            Re: Destructors can copying objects LR <lruss@superlink.net> - 2011-04-15 19:19 -0400
        Re: Destructors can copying objects Ruben Safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2011-04-15 23:03 +0000
          Re: Destructors can copying objects "Alf P. Steinbach /Usenet" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2011-04-16 01:47 +0200
            Re: Destructors can copying objects Peter Remmers <p.remmers@expires-2011-04-30.arcornews.de> - 2011-04-16 13:00 +0200
              Re: Destructors can copying objects "Alf P. Steinbach /Usenet" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2011-04-16 15:57 +0200
  Re: Destructors can copying objects LR <lruss@superlink.net> - 2011-04-02 09:51 -0400
  Re: Destructors can copying objects Yannick Tremblay <yannick@tremnblay.co.uk> - 2011-04-04 12:56 +0000
    Re: Destructors can copying objects Ruben Safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2011-04-04 21:05 +0000
      Re: Destructors can copying objects Paavo Helde <myfirstname@osa.pri.ee> - 2011-04-04 21:56 -0500
      Re: Destructors can copying objects Yannick Tremblay <yannick@tremnblay.co.uk> - 2011-04-05 11:36 +0000
        Re: Destructors can copying objects Ruben Safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2011-04-05 15:40 +0000
          Re: Destructors can copying objects Sana <sanatakos@gmail.com> - 2011-04-05 10:11 -0700
          Re: Destructors can copying objects Ruben Safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2011-04-05 20:28 +0000
          Re: Destructors can copying objects Yannick Tremblay <yannick@tremnblay.co.uk> - 2011-04-06 11:12 +0000
      Re: Destructors can copying objects drew@furrfu.invalid (Drew Lawson) - 2011-04-05 13:02 +0000
        Re: Destructors can copying objects Ruben Safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2011-04-05 15:51 +0000
          Re: Destructors can copying objects drew@furrfu.invalid (Drew Lawson) - 2011-04-05 17:47 +0000
            Re: Destructors can copying objects Ruben Safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2011-04-05 20:25 +0000
              Re: Destructors can copying objects drew@furrfu.invalid (Drew Lawson) - 2011-04-05 20:37 +0000

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