Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.roellig-ltd.de!open-news-network.org!border2.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.brightview.co.uk!news.brightview.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 15:13:05 -0600
From: Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Memory and error management approaches
References: <n179ne$64b$1@speranza.aioe.org> <d9ooh3F6ovuU4@mid.individual.net> <n17app$82n$1@speranza.aioe.org> <d9opetF6ovuU6@mid.individual.net> <n17cgd$cf2$1@speranza.aioe.org> <d9q0hqF7v31U2@mid.individual.net> <n18kna$jnt$1@speranza.aioe.org> <6b3ogc-uob.ln1@wilbur.25thandClement.com> <d9t5scFs0krU2@mid.individual.net> <fg0qgc-mgq.ln1@wilbur.25thandClement.com> <n1dnm8$k1u$1@dont-email.me> <8737wjk1lw.fsf@gmail.com> <macvgc-dta.ln1@wilbur.25thandClement.com> <slrnn3q4t2.5q5.grahn+nntp@frailea.sa.invalid> <0a52aa48-e09d-4f70-82fd-7d5024ef5ba8@googlegroups.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 21:13:05 +0000
Message-ID: <877flpv9r2.fsf@gmail.com>
User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux)
Cancel-Lock: sha1:sxhaTh3GhhJ0It+9V0WizAKWWtg=
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
Lines: 18
X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com
X-Trace: sv3-IuJ1pR6eJ9Ft8jcyrB/yLLygVHmsw7aK9PMuUxnHlaRrSt0TsK94XTR/piaevYPb0K76Io8WI3Ox4c6!80U6JlCnaY45wBu3E9tAzb1MF0FkBMHsRZj/0SplTL9E5iAFkUQ+r2/yoj6GBLaIzCpv
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly
X-Postfilter: 1.3.40
X-Original-Bytes: 2029
Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:75676

Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> writes:

> It's not that it can't be defined.
>
> Resource allocation occurs only in constructors, which are only called 
> when named variables are initialised.

Malcolm, not for the first time, you are talking absolute claptrap.

[snip claptrap-piled-upon-claptrap].

void foo(void)
{
  std::vector rvec; // no resources allocated
  for(int i = 0;i < 10;++i) rvec.push_back(rand()); // add resources 

  return;  // And ... resources automatically deallocated! RAII!
}