placement new to defer to a different constructor

Posted by Jonathan Swinney on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Jonathan Swinney
Published on 2010-04-19T14:24:30Z Indexed on 2010/04/19 14:33 UTC
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Is this safe? I'm not using any virtual functions in my actual implementation, but I'm tempted to believe that even if I was, it would still be safe.

class Foo
{
    Foo()
    {
        // initialize things
    }

    Foo( int )
    {
         new ( this ) Foo();
    }
}

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