Delete without calling destructor?

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"delete" does two things:

1) Invokes the destructor
2) Deallocates the memory

We can manually invoke the destructor with:

p->~T();

But is there any way to manually deallocate the memory without invoking
the destructor? Something like "placement delete" perhaps? I'd be using
it where I'd be continuously constructing and destroying an object:
T *const p = new T;

p->~T();

::new(p) T;

p->~T();

::new(p) T;

p->~T();

::new(p) T;

p->~T();

::new(p) T;

p->~T();

SomeSortOfPlacementDelete(p); /* Just de-allocate, don't destruct */
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Tomás Ó hÉilidhe

[Sean Hunt]

On Feb 1, 2:21 pm, "Tomás Ó hÉilidhe" <[e-mail]:

"delete" does two things:

1) Invokes the destructor
2) Deallocates the memory

We can manually invoke the destructor with:

p->~T();

But is there any way to manually deallocate the memory without invoking
the destructor? Something like "placement delete" perhaps? I'd be using
it where I'd be continuously constructing and destroying an object:

T *const p = new T;

p->~T();

::new(p) T;

p->~T();

::new(p) T;

p->~T();

::new(p) T;

p->~T();

::new(p) T;

p->~T();

SomeSortOfPlacementDelete(p); /* Just de-allocate, don't destruct */

If you just need deallocate without calling the destructing, the
following is also a (probably sub-optimal) option, but it doesn't use
any explicit calls:

delete [] new char [sizeof(T)];

[acehreli]

On Feb 1, 1:21 pm, "Tomás Ó hÉilidhe" <[e-mail]:

"delete" does two things:

1) Invokes the destructor
2) Deallocates the memory

We can manually invoke the destructor with:

p->~T();

But is there any way to manually deallocate the memory without invoking
the destructor?

free :)

Something like "placement delete" perhaps? I'd be using
it where I'd be continuously constructing and destroying an object:

T *const p = new T;

T *const p = static_cast<T *const>(malloc(sizeof(*p)));
::new(p) T;

>
p->~T();

::new(p) T;

etc.

SomeSortOfPlacementDelete(p); /* Just de-allocate, don't destruct */

free(p);

Ali