Allocating Heap/GC Storage upon Default Construction of RC Containers

Nordlöw via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Wed Sep 21 05:49:37 PDT 2016


Is there any way to make a default constructor of a struct 
container allocate/initialize an internal pointer?

I need this in a container with RC behaviour similar to

struct Container
{
     this()    // this is currently forbidden:
     {
         _rcStore = emplace(cast(RCStore*)malloc(RCStore.size), 
null, 0);
     }

private:
     static struct RCStore
     {
         T* store;
         size_t refCount;
     }
     RCStore* _rcStore;
}

If I can't modify default construction in containers such as 
`Container` it is gonna behave in the same confusing way as empty 
AA's do for (novel) D developers. Namely that the assignment of 
uninitialized AA's has copy semantics and non-empty AA's have 
reference semantics.

I believe Andralex has spoken about this being a problem that 
should be fixed if possible.


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