A question about postblit constructor

[Ferhat Kurtulmuş]

On Tuesday, 5 November 2019 at 11:20:47 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Tuesday, 5 November 2019 at 10:32:03 UTC, Ferhat Kurtulmuş 
> wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 5 November 2019 at 10:31:05 UTC, Ferhat Kurtulmuş 
>> wrote:
>>>[...]
>
> I meant the example as an answer to your statement, "I wonder 
> how new memory is allocated without an explicit malloc here". 
> The postblit was intended as a chance to "fixup" everything 
> when you needed a deep copy. The new struct is initialized as a 
> shallow copy, so when you enter into the postblit, the pointer 
> is already pointing at the original location. Without assigning 
> it a new malloc'ed address, your memcpy was essentially 
> overwriting the original location with its own data.

What I need was a deep copy, and I thought I could have done it 
using postblit constructor. Thanks for clarification.