OpenTNL - Object Management Trickery

Object Management Trickery

Detailed Description

These functions are to construct and destruct objects in memory without causing a free or malloc call to occur.

This is so that we don't have to worry about allocating, say, space for a hundred NetAddresses with a single malloc call, calling delete on a single NetAdress, and having it try to free memory out from under us.

Functions

template<class T> T * TNL::constructInPlace (T *p)

Constructs an object that already has memory allocated for it.

template<class T> T * TNL::constructInPlace (T *p, const T *copy)

Copy constructs an object that already has memory allocated for it.

template<class T> void TNL::destructInPlace (T *p)

Destructs an object without freeing the memory associated with it.

Function Documentation

template<class T>

T* constructInPlace ( T * p ) [inline]

Constructs an object that already has memory allocated for it.

template<class T>

T* constructInPlace ( T * p,

const T * copy

) [inline]

Copy constructs an object that already has memory allocated for it.

template<class T>

void destructInPlace ( T * p ) [inline]

Destructs an object without freeing the memory associated with it.