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Re: by pif on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @10:38AM (#45438248)
> I WANT to be able to separate allocation from initialization.

Which hardly ever makes sense, and is possible with clean C++ anyway...

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Re: by 1718627440 on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @03:16PM (#45442007)
> is possible with clean C++ anyway...

That's news to me; how?

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Re: by cozzyd on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @06:42PM (#45444478)
Placement new?
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Re: by 1718627440 on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @07:12PM (#45444741)
I might also use placement new after taking a pointer to a stack object or global, but it won't prevent the original constructor from being run.
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